Learning Game Design™

It’s been a while over here – not that I wouldn’t have stuff to post, but been busy otherwise. Family’s expanding and all that :-)

So I got to borrow a PS3 from a friend and with it got Heavy Rain (my primary inspiration for  borrowing the console) and Uncharted 2. Heavy Rain was something that made me heavily consider purchasing PS3, but the fact that multiple game platforms increase the amount of good games available which increases the amount of unfinished games in the shelf.

So in the end, I decided I wouldn’t buy the console since there’s enough for me in the XBox360 and I would just miss out on Heavy Rain if needed. Luckily, thanks to my friend, I didn’t need to.

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Here at Digital Chocolate, we recently released California Gold Rush for both iPhone (get it from AppStore) and Mobile and here’s some design insights into the development of the game that has already garnered some critical reviews.

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I’ve been having loads of fun with the latest Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. I’m not the most feverish fan of platformers and partly I think they’ve gone the wrong way ever since the first Jak & Daxter.

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Originally, I didn’t really pay much attention to Burnout Paradise. I tried the demo briefly and left it at that. During that time of absence, Criterion added all kinds of content to the game, making it better and when the Ultimate Box came out at a nice price, there was no reason for me not to jump in.

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