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What is Wrong With Game Development?

Posted by timothy on from the no-realistic-driving-sims-for-one-thing dept.

Warrior-GS writes "Seamus Blackley, who has done everything from work at Looking Glass Studios to evangelize for the Microsoft Xbox, sounds off on what's wrong with the relationship between developers, publishers and their audience. Also, as part of coverage of the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, GameSpy has chats with Miyamoto about The Wind Waker and Yu Suzuki about his gaming influences. Some interesting reading."

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  1. [OT] Anyone in the game development biz? by symbolic · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I have a younger friend who is considering some level of involvement in programming/designing games. Particular questions include:
    - What specialized areas of knowledge will be most useful (math, physics, for example?)
    - What's a reasonable expectation for an annual income?
    - If one is using a pre-existing gaming engine, what exactly is it that needs to be programmed (he's thinking c++)?

    Basically, he's wondering if he can turn his passion for playing games into one that involves creating them, but he also wants to sure he won't have to starve in order to do it.

    I hope this isn't too far OT.

  2. you don't know the golden age of gaming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm 50 years old, lots of disposable income, but I'm not interested in computer games.

    When I want to play games, the wife and I go to Las Vegas. Nothing better than standing around a craps table, watching the giddy blondes spend their boyfriends' money. Then we have a nice dinner, wine, and we go back to our room and fuck each other brains out.

    When a video game can do that, I'll buy.