Jim Ying is SVP of Publishing at independent developer 6waves. Prior to this, he spent five years at Microsoft as manager in the Xbox division, working on major franchises such as Halo and Age of Empires. Like so many of us, Jim has been carefully monitoring the progress of the forthcoming Ouya console, and his…
In our three part series on the Ouya console, we ask industry leaders in social, casual and mobile gaming if the surprising Kickstarter console can bridge the gap between core and casual, and successfully transition the Android OS to a living room entertainment device. Part 1: Anil Dharni – SVP of Studio Operations, GREE…
Why on earth would anyone start up an independent games development studio in a time when devs all over the world are being put to the sword? When even the biggest publishers are taking out their marketing inadequacies on our creative brothers and sisters on the battlefront, canning them rather than the people behind the…
There will be many development people reading this who know exactly what I look like. And I don’t mean in some carefully-posed corporate photograph either. I mean in the shambolic, 3D, real-world flesh. In fact they will be far more familiar with my ugly appearance than that of just about any other co-worker from Marketing….
Noah Falstein looks back at his work on the legendary arcade game Sinistar, working in the the coin-op era, the birth of game designers and the aftermath of Sinistar. My first officially published computer game was a coin-operated arcade game called Sinistar, released by Williams Electronics in 1983. I’ve subsequently worked on a lot of…
Trip Hawkins of Digital Chocolate discusses the early days of EA, the core principal the publisher was started with, launching the 3DO game console, licensing technology, Digital Chocolate and much more in this issue’s cover story Let’s talk about the launch of EA. What got you started? Well, you really have to think back to…
When you tell people you make games for a living they generally say something like, “Wow, that doesn’t even sound like a job,” or “If that’s work, what could you possibly do for fun?” And for the most part it’s true: Making games beats the heck out of, say, cleaning sewers or performing rectal exams…
Long before he was elected governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a really, really bad actor. His multimillion-dollar blockbusters were almost universally films in which he did little but grunt and shoot and blow stuff up. But the movies in which he actually, you know, talked and stuff? Yuck. Case in point: Twins, the 1988…
Scott Miller of 3D Realms discusses Duke Nukem, publishers, Tomb Raider, Hollywood, Star Wars, the importance of a strong lead and fixing the industry in 10 Questions from the Fall 2009 issue of the Gamesauce Magazine. 1) We keep hearing about transmedia. What exactly does that mean, anyway? Star Wars is my best example of…
When you’re as busy as we all are, with so much going on around us, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. You get so preoccupied with the screwed up economy, squabbles between publishers and developers, indie opportunities and freelance opportunities and start-up opportunities and the half dozen cool ideas that you never…