Grumpy Gamer

JULY 8, 2011

The vertical slice is one of the dumbest things the game industry has ever come up with. I threw this together to show how dumb it is. Not sure why I was thinking about it today, but I was. The publisher I'm working with now doesn't want a vertical slice, some don't, but there are quite a few that do. It's just a dumb way to build a game and it results in wasted time and money and doesn't produce the best game possible.

Prototyping 130

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Interesting Choices

JULY 13, 2011

The goal of Bit Pilot is to stay alive as long as you can. Well, scratch that. The goal is to listen to as much of the music of Sabrepulse (an incredible chiptune artist) as possible, and the way you do that is by living as long as you can. You control a little ship in a huge asteroid field, with your only input being surprisingly tight touch-based movement controls.

Build 52

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 7, 2011

The vertical slice is one of the dumbest things the game industry has ever come up with. I threw this together to show how dumb it is. Not sure why I was thinking about it today, but I was. The publisher I’m working with now doesn’t want a vertical slice, some don’t, but there are quite a few that do. It’s just a dumb way to build a game and it results in wasted time and money and doesn’t produce the best game possible.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Build Writing Studios 130