This GDC, I partially took part as an exhibitor at the booth of a Korean game company I am working with. From time to time, I presented the game I was working on and talked with potential publishers and investors. Talking with them made it clear that most publishers are interested in games that has [...]

It was my 4 th time attending GDC. On my way driving up to San Francisco, one question kept occurring to me “honestly, why am I going to GDC?” I had an expo pass, so I didn’t have access to any talks. Spending time at the career center as one of the hundreds of job seekers [...]

Atlas: The atlas of the Nexus will be carved onto the stone that makes up the tower player builds. It will take the form of ancient Mayan hieroglyphic, and player will decipher this symbolic instruction one by one each time he builds up his tower. Table of Contents: – Beginning your Journey: There are several Mayan pyramid-like [...]

According to Wikipedia, an alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants’ ideas or actions. As the popularization of Smartphone, ARGs became more accessible to public, and attempts to explore the potential of [...]

Below are the internal and external sketch of the Rooms Mansion. The Rooms Mansion is consisted of buildings made out of sliding room puzzles surrounding the central corridor. At the center of the corridor is a huge statue of Moriatti holding a model of earth made of puzzle pieces in triumph. Up on the ceiling is [...]

Rooms Mansion is a fictional building consisted of sliding puzzles. There is a legend about how the Rooms Mansion came to be what it is today.  Back in 17 th century, there was a legendary puzzle maker Baron Moriatti. Like Mozart in classical music, Moriatti was the most respected figure in the field of puzzle making [...]

  O: It is assemblable. => Users should have enough strength and intelligence to assemble it.   O: The volume dramatically decreases when it is not assembled. => Mobility is the important design principle for this furniture. => Users should move often, or live in a large country.   O: It is mostly made of wood, [...]

Bioshock has such a complex and deeply articulated world that is not only interesting to play, but also revolves around its main subject that asks philosophical question about our modern industrialized society. The time setting goes back to 1950s, when the postwar rehabilitation brought about seemingly endless wealth, baby boom, and artistic and scientific achievements. [...]

On the second day of Independent Games Summit, there was a talk by Andy Schatz, creator of Monaco, the Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner game last year. He told the story how he came to create Monaco and won the greatest award at IGF last year. Andy has been an independent game developer for past 6 [...]

The IGF Award and Game Developers Choice Award is over. Two “independent” games, Minecraft and Limbo, collapsed the boundary between indie and major. Set aside the ambiguous definition of “Indie” term, it’s very interesting that these two games have very contradicting style in terms of both development process and gameplay: Limbo is extremely introvert and [...]