...game I'm working on--it's an aspect of the game that enriches everything else about it in an almost startling way. The audio team works harder and longer than almost anyone. I'm fairly sure the correlation here is pretty direct. Irrespective of how the game finally turns out, to have worked with the audio team closely in the past year or so...

...game at this point, now that it's more or less done, and I'm making time for that Let me record my recent thinking on the game, since it's subject to change later, especially once my impressions of it start being colored by other people's impressions: In this moment, I like this game. I have fun playing it. At last I can say these things...

...games for a change. For starters, I'm spending this Sunday luxuriantly wondering what the hell to do rather than knowing exactly what needs to be done. Not that I'm complaining I have never had this much of a backlog of must-play games in my entire life. That's one thing I'll be fixing But I need to figure out my next move. I should get...

Unfortunately this might have been the defining day of my life. Though hell, at least I had one

...game before I started working on it, and that experience has gone pretty much as hoped, even surprisingly so. A lot of the characters are very true to the original intentions and hearing dialogue I wrote in the game and seeing people smile from it or better yet laugh at it has probably been the most rewarding part of this experience so far ...

I've written here under pseudonym on purpose, because I need to be able to express certain ideas for what they're worth, and because this page is about describing an experience rather than about a person. While this isn't meant to be all secretive, I appreciated that the small readership here basically seemed to understand the intent. Thank you...

...games I need to play 3. I'm not getting enough exercise List not necessarily in order of importance. As for the catching-up-on-games part, at least the convenience and worry-free nature of Xbox Live Arcade means I can get into Braid and Bionic Commando Rearmed for a few minutes each night to put a buffer between work in the morning and work...

...game, to make a good one. Now I'm close to the finish line on my current project, and with any luck it'll meet this standard. I'm doing everything I can in these last few days and weeks to ensure the end result is something that was worth spending this much of my life trying to make, which is to say, something that basically lives up to what...

...games are automatically going to be commercially successful to some extent, due to the strength of the brand marketing and the investment that goes into that side of the business. So it's up to me to make sure all those people who play the game don't get screwed, and that their faith isn't betrayed. It's up to me to keep the franchises I work...

Games are not necessary by their very definition. Some developers, in my limited experience, approach the development process purely from a software-development point of view, in terms of trying to put together the bare minimum number of "requirements" in order to get to a "shippable" state. May all these developers fail. They're fundamentally...