July 2008 Posts

Kick, punch, it’s all in the mind.

For this entry I’m going to look at the fighting game genre (sorry Parappa the Rapper fans). The fighting genre is one of the few genres that I can say I followed from it’s birth to today, and had a …

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The same tale , told differently each time.

In a moment of serendipity Corvus was talking about how the movie ” The Big Lebowski” is similar to “The Hero’s Journey”.here while I’ve spent the last few weeks reading two books by Joesph Campbell (the man behind the …

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A cross section of things that go bump in the night.

Well I’ve been promising a look at the horror genre for some time, and I haven’t managed to come up with a better title for it so here goes. Over at the igda forums there is a discussion about the …

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The dollars and cents behind adding game content.

These past few weeks have not been kind to HellGate London, and things have hit rock bottom this week as the majority of the employees at FlagShip Studios have been let go and the game will still be available online, …

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Adding that extra spice of humanity to character development.

For animated series it has been a very good month, for me it means that two of my favorites are finished or going to be. While both are as different as night and day, they both feature one element that …

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