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Jun
11

Game Designer Wishes

Um, I haven't actually read it yet (wanted to plug it first), but it's probably enlightening! Article at 1up.com...

Three Wishes: Game Genie Grants Developers Their Hearts' Desires.

"Dear developer," our offer went, "if you could, at the wave of a magic wand, overcome some technological hurdle in game development, what would it be? And more important, what would it allow you to do that you can't do today? Ultimately, this is about you making the games you want to make. You can make one wish, or you can make three." Seventeen prominent gamemakers wished away, and in the process, revealed what troubles they face today as well as the trajectory the medium might take tomorrow.

[edit] Actually not as fantastic as I thought it would be, though still a decent read. Too many of the developers wanted brain-imaginings-to-reality tools (come on... who doesn't want that...).

But leave it up to Will Wright to want something as mundane (?) as perfect pathfinding. O.o

posted at 12:08 PM | design, games

Comments

Thanks for the link. I definitely found the comments akin to Wright's to be more interesting... of course we'd all love the proverbial "easy button" that allows us to snap our fingers and have a game that we'd imagined ready to go instantly. But it's not a useful comment. Wright's is much more interesting, obviously :)

RJ[TypeKey Profile Page] | Jun 19, 2008 at 12:48 AM

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