My expo pass only allowed me to get into sponsored talks. I went to a few different ones sponsored by Blackberry(yes, Blackberry), Microsoft Kinect, and Qualcomm among others. Oh! and I somehow ended up in Janus Rau Sorensen’s (Crystal Dynamics/ IO Interactive(Square Enix)) “Arrggghh!!! Blending Quanititative and Qualitative Methods to Detect Player Frustration” which was [...]

I attended Joshua Debonis’s (Sortasoft LLC) poster-talk on Friday at GDC. It was titled “Game Design in Parallel”. Joshua’s mantra’s to always design in two….design two different versions of the same game so you can split every issue/question that comes up in two and develop it out in either of the two games. He suggests [...]

So it started around the same time last year when Jason and I talked about going on a long-distance biking trip to San Diego. We didn’t follow through–I think we expected not to. But one year on, Jonghwa and I hatched plans for the same trip over Thai food. I think we had just come [...]

First Look of my project…you see the three-headed adversary. Not sure what to call the project…

The world of repetition is identical to ours expect for two important distinctions. First, the world of the repetition tends to have duplicates of its various components at any given time. There are only identical twins that are ever born to mammals and usually triplets break open from the eggs of reptiles. You’ll have to [...]

Swami and Friends(TV Show): Adapted from R.K. Narayan’s book by the same name, which was published in 1980. It’s a nostalgic look-back at the pre-Independent India(the TV show was produced in the 1990s.) Set in the rustic world of a South Indian village, Malgudi(fictional.) 9 year old Swami as the protagonist: The series is about the [...]

Paul Chen from PapayaMobile spoke at length about eeking the most money from your mobile game/app. He concerned himself with the Android OS as PapayaMobile only supports the Android OS.  The top two things he made clear was that the game/app should be FREE, and that you must use the PapayaMobile framework to leverage its [...]

Roaming around the Expo floor at GDC, I simply tried to put technologies and ideas together as I encountered them. It was fun coming up with game mechanics, and experiences in my head as I passed from one booth to the next. There were companies that were showing off their smell emitter players(?)–watched a trailer [...]

being more influential in general. I’m thinking of creating a new version of the English language script-gipt complete! no commas no fullSTOPS nor silly silent letters! Let’s work on the next new TRULY GLOBAL LANGUAGE Help shape the Future. I will learn you ways of  doing correct things… Maybe some outdoor painting?? What you should [...]

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