Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was chatting with a friend the other day and the conversation turned to modern point-and-click adventure games and there was much lamenting on how the UI (the way you interact with the game) hasn’t changed that much. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t play a lot of adventure games these days. It’s an occupational hazard. I usually rage quit or eye-roll quit within 20 minutes.

Point and Click 130

Point and Click Puzzle Games 130

Brand Game Development

JANUARY 6, 2020

Cardboard costs a lot of money! Board gamers are accustomed to handing over hundreds of dollars at a time on board game shopping sprees. If you look on /r/boardgames or Board Game Geek, you can find no shortage of “shelfies” where people have hundreds of board games. You might even get the impression that board gamers are not price-sensitive at all… Need help on your board game?

Games 130

Games First person Fantasy Build 130

The GameDev Guru

JANUARY 7, 2020

Can you guess why keeping Unity Draw Calls at bay is today more relevant than ever?

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Lost Garden

JANUARY 10, 2020

For Project Horseshoe 2019, an annual game designer think tank, our workgroup investigated how economics could help promote prosocial values. You can read the other reports here: [link] Attendees: Randy Farmer, Joshua Bayer, Tryggvi Hjaltason, Erin Hoffman-John, Daniel Cook, Ray Holmes “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously.

Game Design 52

Game Design Game Designer Games 52

Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 5, 2020

I think the Seattle Central College needs a better tagline writer. No tagline would have been better. Monkey Island One of the games released in 1990. Stores wouldn't have been able to keep it in stock.

Games 130

Games 130

The Astronauts

JANUARY 4, 2020

Looks like I’ve been working at Unity for 14 years. What?!?! So here’s another blog post that looks at the past without presenting any useful information, similar to the ones from two, four, ten, eleven years. A year ago I wrote how I started mentoring several juniors at work, and then how I’ve spent two years on the build system team.

Build 52

Build 52

Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 4, 2020

I think the Seattle Central College needs a better tagline writer. No tagline would have been better. Monkey Island One of the games released in 1990 Stores wouldn’t have been able to keep it in stock.

Games 130

Games 130