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Development, Exclusive Interviews
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Elonka Dunin is a game developer who has twenty years of experience in the industry with her. She advocates for the online game genre and co-founded the International Game Developers Association’s Online Games Group. She shares her start in the game industry, reflections on a constantly changing industry, and her current work on Fantasy University [...]
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Exclusive Interviews, Indie
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Erin Robinson is a game designer who blazoned her way in the game industry by making much-loved free games such as Nanobots, Spooks and Little Girl in Underland. It helps that she can make her own concept art, too. Shareware For Life Even in her early years, Robinson was a fan of indie games. She played [...]
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Exclusive Interviews
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Freelance writer Toiya Finley discusses writing for Academagia and shares her story of hope for other freelance writers who want to write for games. Text-Based Games Live Text-based games are making a comeback in the world of smartphones, handhelds, and good ol’ cell phones. Finley, who fairly recently transitioned her writing skills to the game [...]
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Business, Exclusive Interviews
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Great games can come from the most unexpected corners of the globe, sometimes years in the making before finding their rhythm. Brazil’s D’Accord Music Software started ten years ago. “We were doing music education software,” recalls chief executive Americo Amorim. The company made mostly PC-based downloadable products, which were very successful in schools. By 2007, [...]
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Development
Friday, December 24th, 2010
Writer and designer Sande Chen reflects on her journey as a freelancer, breaks down the budding field of social game design, and recalls memories of working on her favorite role-playing games. From Serious Games to Social Games With a background as a games writer and serious games designer, Sande Chen is currently navigating the fairly [...]
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Development
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Kim Sellentin, Producer at SEGA Studios Australia, discusses her start as a QA tester, her approach of cultivating a learning culture in the studio, and strategies for current and future producers.
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Business, Exclusive Interviews
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
President and Co-Founder of thatgamecompany Kellee Santiago talks about the origins of thatgamecompany, creative expression in video games, the value of core games, and Journey, which is currently in development for PlayStation Network.
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Development
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
As a Content Strategist, Kate Edwards has had the opportunity to work with game titles including Halo 1, Halo 2, Fable, and Forza. “Some personal favorites from a process standpoint were all of the Age of Empires titles, as well as Jade Empire,” she shares. Most recently, she just finished work on Dance Central and [...]
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Development
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
There’s an old joke among game producers, that the job is herding cats. “What we’re doing,” explains Tim Huntsman, “We’re herding people across multiple disciplines.” The senior producer from Disney’s Fall Line Studio goes deeper into the topic, saying that programmers speak a different language than artists. “There are sub-dialects within that,” chuckles Huntsman. Creative [...]
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Exclusive Interviews
Monday, November 29th, 2010
XLOC’s president and co-founder Stephanie O’Malley Deming just wrapped working with Activision on a very high profile game coming out this holiday. “That end-of-the-project push is so exciting and exhilarating. For a game of that size, there are so many loose ends to wrap up. From a production perspective, you need to be quick, focused and [...]
