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When you’re designing a game, I think one of the most important part of it is the story. Without a decent story, character development and plot, you have… well, you have crap. There are more than a few games out there with no story or any character development that could easily put me to sleep. Just like a lullabye. In fact, I think I’m falling asleep right now just thinking about it. Actually, I think what’s really putting me to sleep is my writing. Damn, I’m boring.
Anyways, like I said… story = crucial to your game. …read more

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I am amused by this following video.
Somehow I doubt it’s really like this. How can a job be that fun? What probably really happens is that the boss has a stick and pokes you with it constantly as your testing the games. And then for lunch, they make you eat some sludge and then before you leave for the day, they rip 10 hairs out of your head. Exactly 10. And if you don’t have hair on your head, they rip it out of your arms.
That’s how I imagine a job testing games REALLY …read more

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That’s right… there’s a new Point and Click game creator… well, it’s not really new, it’s actually part 2 of Point and Click (that’s the name of it, I’m telling you). It looks like it is pretty easy to use and has some pretty darn cool features. I downloaded a demo game that they had, but it was all in German and while I am pretty good with the English, I ain’t so good with the German. Maybe I just didn’t look long enough to find an English version, but I’m sure SOMEONE out there speaks German, …read more

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Okay, so if you took a look at my last entry, I talked about how BioWare is hosting a contest to end all contests, but you’re thinking “Eh, the RPG genre is too blah for me. They only talk about swords and magic and crap like that. I don’t like crap like that.” Well, thanks for offending a gigantic portion of our readers who happen to like RPG. Like me. Let me go cry now…
Alright, back and I’m better. Anyways. So, you don’t like writing RPG stories… there’s a solution for your problems. Perhaps you’re …read more

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So, if you’ve been to Play-Girlz.Com, you’ll notice that it is in fact not a porn site, but instead a gaming site being written by two wonderful ladies, Erin Harvey and Ingrid Diaz. They are a little crazy, yes, but they have a lot of information out there about different games and all the news stuff that can be associated with games. You may have noticed them talking about women’s roles in gaming and how being a gamer is a primarily male dominated thing. Well, if you think playing games is a primarily male thing, think of …read more

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Well, we haven’t talked too much about developing First Person Shooters, but they have a whole heck of a lot of players. Halo, Halo 2 and Counter Strike are just a few examples of the crazy FPS’ out there, but maybe you have an entirely new idea, like eradicating an alien race. Oh, wait, that’s been done before. Or many you want to kill a bunch of Nazi’s during World War II? Yeah, I know. Done and beaten to death. Well, I’m not very imaginative, but maybe you are and maybe you want to make an …read more

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So, as you’re probably aware, music is a gigantic part of any game you may be developing. It helps to set the mood and the tone of your scene or an entire game and without it you probably won’t be going very far. I look through a lot of tutorials and tips about game design and development and the music ones are really few and far between, so look no further. I was browsing through Adventure Developers and found this really great tutorial: Click me! It goes through a lot of basics and what you …read more

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Are you sitting at work right now, wondering what your World of Warcraft character is doing? Maybe he’s sitting there, all by himself, crying because he misses you. Do you wish you could escape to the bathroom with your work laptop and just log on? And play? Even if everyone is thinking you’re taking a big crap for hours? They’ll think, “Where did Jimmy go? He was suppose to have that document on my desk by 1:00 sharp! I bet he’s taking a big crap again!” But you wouldn’t care, IF you …read more

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