May 7, 2008
Chat notes about Video Game, Art and Digital Medium
I had a great conversation with my friend Anna Knos today on IM. She's not in the video game industry but somehow is doing some researches about games. And by sharing my thoughts on video games and art with her I learned a lot myself. In short, video game can be Art if you make it...
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My interview with Gamasutra
During the GDC 2008, I had an opportunity to meet and sit down with the famous Brandon Sheffield from Gamasutra. I shared a lot of back stage stories of thatgamecompany and some of my design principles with him. It was a great time talking with him. And I liked this interview a lot. Hopefully you can find something useful from this article :)
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April 7, 2008
My interview with Tale of Tales
During GDC 2008, I met the geniuses from Tale of Tales, Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn. I felt that we have a lot of things in common, from our works in the past to our visions for the future. It was a blast doing this interview with them. It helped me to sort out a lot of my thoughts till recently.
Read it here.
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March 19, 2008
The Hero's Journey quotes
For my personal interests, I started to read Joseph Campbell's biography The Hero's Journey. What surprises me is that a lot of his interviews are more inspiring than the 13 components of a hero's story. A lot of his ideas resonate with my own experience and my slowly growing understanding of life.
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March 5, 2008
Hurricane X 2 trailer
My friends who I used to make game together with left their jobs and started up their own studio in China. They entered XNA dream build play competition last year with this game. Though they didn't win any publishing deal, they are still trying to finish it. I was lucky to get a copy of the game. It is already a solid demo. I'm eagerly waiting to see more...
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February 24, 2008
Video game needs more Mature content
At the Game Developer Conference 2008, I gave a talk at the game developer rant session. This year's rant is from the game designers. My topic is about how video game needs more mature content. Before they post the full length video, here is a video teaser from joystiq and a text coverage from gamasutra.
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February 16, 2008
GDC 08
Next week, I will attend Annual Game Developer Conference at San Fransisco again. For the last four years, I have been a loyal fan for the event. And every time I go, I feel totally inspired, excited and threatened. The only thing I want to do after GDC is to work on my game again harder :)
Thanks to Kellee Santiago's wonderful post, all our detailed schedule at the conference can be found here.
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