Indie game developer with interests in level design (primarily single player) and game writing. However, most of my experience is in programming. I've made small games from scratch alone (complete with programmer art :) ) for flash as well as windows. Lately I have been working on my level design skills with various 3D map editors, building the geometry as well as the scripting. I get a lot of enjoyment out of level/scenario construction so that is the area that I want to improve in. I have plans to work on either a total conversion mod for an existing game or to create a 3D role playing game using middleware solutions.
With that said, I'm still a big fan of 2D games and I continually design and create them for fun. Recently I've been interested in creating educational games for children. I think video games hold a lot of power to be a teaching tool.
Is "better" AI an illusion? A discussion about the psychology behind artificial intelligence, and how the key might be in changing a player's perception more than the execution of the AI.
@ Bart I agree with the wide open design aspect you bring up. Most games today have a single path through them. Some games today will have a small fork down the linear path, or a second path that leads to a dead end, but that's as open as they ...
SC2 has a handicap system. Also something I've noticed in the beta is that you can go into the menus and there is a help section where they have multiple tabs like build order , tutorials , and each race name. The tutorials tab is greyed out so I'm not ...
I've always been a gamer that focuses more on the gameplay than the stories, graphics, or anything else pretty much. I think this has enabled me to continuously enjoy the latest RPGs more than some other aged gamers. I don't have a problem with change like some people I would ...
I think that study is flawed because you are asking the same people, but at the same time asking different people would be flawed as well. So there's really no way to do that study unless you could erase their memories, or possibly find two sets of people from the ...
I wrote up a game design one day for an MMO with no levels, if interested here it is: An MMORPG without levels. All players start their first life equal, but as different classes. Later lives start to blur the class line despite being tagged as say a warrior . ...
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