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At Penny Arcade Expo 2007, we interviewed Noah Ward, one of the developers. Eve has been a frequent subject of ours, we love our sandbox games. We had the opportunity for an impromptu peek at the development and history of EVE online. Unfortunately we didn’t get the best audio recording of our interview so we’ve transcribed the chat for your reading pleasure! Video and Transcription under the jump.
Right, and you can just go out and pew pew, as they say.
Persona 3 (gamerankings|official|wiki) has really hit me where it counts - right in the brain.
Whenever a game so impresses and enthralls me, I like to spend some quality time determining why. What mystic formula or feature made the game so different from its contemporaries or anti-derivatives. After pondering these questions (and others like why did this game have to come out right before PAX - now I want to stay home and play), I think I have found what makes this game great and unique.
Character.
Hey everyone!
We’ll take a short look into Penny Arcade’s feature game. I’ll give some opinions and information on it. We’ll talk about PAX some more maybe.
Oh and maybe I’ll go over a little XBox 360 as well.
Pen has felt some nostalgia lately and opened up her dusty copy of Vagrant Story. What will come of this?
Here’s a provoking set of games. They are very well crafted edutainment games, albeit a bit random. It shows you the lessons you’ve learned at the end, which end up being a lot more academic and verbose then perhaps you though while you were ‘doing’ the learning. (It looks like someone’s read Raph’s book, too.)
Kongregate: Play Understanding Games: Episode 1
Put up your flash games, and get revenue based off how well your games do on the site. Recipe for win!
For a long time the top spot of our ‘We want to interview’ list has been occupied by Chris Taylor.
His early work on such games as Hardball II, 4D Boxing, Triple Play Baseball. Then moving on to create Total Annihilation and it’s expansion pack, The Core Contingency, and Dungeon Siege. He is now currently the CEO and Creative Director of GasPoweredGames.
Total Annihilation has been acclaimed as a masterpiece and the defining example for the classical period of the RTS genre. Supreme Commander is shaping up for similar praise, as it carries Chris’s trademark technological and gameplay innovations. With it’s up-and-coming release, we were honored to get a live interview with Chris during his busy pre-launch schedule to talk about Supreme Commander, epic ping-pong-table-sized games of Risk, and other bedlam. My favorite quote being:
CT: Well then I would crush and destroy everything, with my new robot body, and I think that’d be pretty fun.
Download the MP3 here. (33 minutes, 11.6megs) The text transcript for the interview follows, as well.
Gama-sister-site gamecareerguide.com has started a history of video games as it pertains to game design. It is a very enjoyable read (++ for Coleco, Car Wars, and Go picture for the header) that covers board games, RPGs, and the rise of early consoles up until the home computer.
This is a first installment of many to come, but a must-read for any console or tabletop gaming history fan.
On Game Design: A History of Video Games - GameCareerGuide.com
