The Great Fluid Imagination Video Game Project
Project Introduction
Like most red-blooded American males who grew up in the age of Atari, Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation, and XBox, I’ve long dreamt of creating a video game. Unfortunately, I have very few skills that would allow me to do such a thing. I’m not a software developer, nor can I draw worth a damn. About [...]
An Interview With Spore’s Infectious Designers
From Maclife’s An Interview With Spore’s Infectious Designers: “In a word, Spore is overwhelming. This ultimate simulation is coming to Macs and PCs simultaneously on September 7, 2008. But somehow, this simulation of early life, evolution, tribal interactions, rise of civilizations, and interplanetary colonization makes ‘overwhelming’ a good thing. We recently stopped by EA’s Maxis [...]
Come To VT & Rock Out With Your Cock Out.
For Christmas, Santa Claus gave me Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, just as I asked him to. I had never played it before, but so many people — people who don’t often play videogames — recommended it to me, that I knew it would be a big hit at the Callahan/Sarli house. Sure enough, [...]
The Next 25 Years of Video Games
From Cracked.com’s hilarious, terrifying, and mindbending article, The Next 25 Years of Video Games: “Imagine it. In your lifetime, a magical world where you can actually meet that Burger King mascot, and smell him and feel his robes. As for the porn, well, is it even porn at that stage? Its pretty much just sex. [...]
The Wii Sports Experiment
From The Wii Sports Experiment: “OK, so I was thinking one day after I played a good 1/2 hour of Wii Sports that I was getting a pretty heavy duty cardio workout. I decided to try out an experiment, where I would do everything I normally did, eat everything I normally ate and see if [...]
Urinating in games
From Games Are Fun: “To prove that they are willing to push the limits of game design and bring new, fresh concepts to the industry, [a design director for Electronic Arts] announced in an interview that the next-gen, cooperative-play focused Army of Two will feature in-game peeing.”
Bully for You
In Bully for You, Wired reviews Bully the new game from Rockstar, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto series. Wired writes, “…Bully is, in many ways, the ultimate Rockstar game. By turning to high school, the designers have found the perfect locale for exploring the cliquishness, unfairness and brutality of everyday society…Rockstar has performed [...]
