Minmaxing Life

Ben Cousins: Executive Producer - Battlefield Franchise
Ben starts off with a short history of his professional life and how he spent most of it playing Battlefield until he went on at Dice to actually work on the series.
Shows a quite funny movie he used to internally promote the vision for Battlefield heroes. At the time [...]

Media Molecule Keynote - Alex Evans and Mark Healey:

Alex:”I am going to do a lot of rambling about User Generated Content”.
They made their presentation inside Little Big Planet with custom artwork for GDC Paris. They explain they wanted to make a game based on creativity. Show a short history of game plateforms. “The technology improves [...]

I went to the panel discussion on the Future of MMOs (there’s a good writeup at Terra Nova) with pretty low expectations based on previous year’s experience. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be - mostly thanks to Min Kim from Nexon and because Ray Muzika is not only smart, he’s also [...]

One of my favorite session at GDC is the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, where a bunch of games that are “experimental” in nature are presented.
This year, a number of patterns emerged in what the judges have seen so games were presented in groups:
- Replay
This pattern was all about single player games that toyed with the idea [...]

Anyone who’s been around me long enough has eventually had to suffer through one of my long winded tangent on the societal impact of technology and the probable advent of the Singularity. So, of course, Ray Kurzweil’s book’s “The Singularity Is Near” takes the place of the bible on my bed stand and it was [...]

Chris Hecker is one of those guys really worth following. He has been very active in the game community for years where he’s notoriously known as a super brilliant guy, that has never released a game. But that’s all going to change very soon as he’s gone directly from that to helping Will Wright on [...]

Who’s never heard of Sid Meier? Having designed Civilization is enough to make him a legend in game circles.
But that’s far, far from all he did. Here are my slightly reworked notes on his interview at GDC today (Italics are my added thoughts).
Standing the test of time: a Q&A with Sid Meier, questions by Noah [...]