Art vs Monetization


Role-playing survival game is willing to take risks

This week we had one of our quicker casts as Ken, Lorson and I recorded late Sunday evening for a chat about monetization, art and the first of my thoughts on Hearthstone.

Monetization

We started off talking about a blog post on Gamasutra from designer Jeff Vogel where he talked about why he’s tired of people complaining about mobile games. Then I started talking about Hearthstone and getting Ken and Lorson’s opinion on the monetization model. Ken talked about finishing up The Tesla Effect and The Walking Dead Season two episode three (no spoilers though.) Lorson talked about a F2P game that she’s playing called Aerena.

Lastly we talked more about the Games as Art debate and Ken and I shared our differing viewpoints of what interests us in a video game.