Archives - March 2010

Following GDC for 10 years now. Time to rant.

Platform agnosticism I wish developers would be much more on the side of not giving a fuck about the platform except in terms of input for their games. Yes, you make RETRO 8BIT looking games because you grew up with these, I get it. Yes you make a game focused on narrative because you always wanted to...

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Everything is a draft

I found something interesting on my SoundCloud statistics with this track: Replay   by  Harold Last month it was played more than 200 times when the average on my few tracks is more around 30 plays. I designed and composed this track for a game, Soul Bubbles . It was at first less sophisticated...

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3some

Holy Shit. Sony acquires the independent studio Media Molecule . After Nadeo joining Ubisoft forces, another “indie” absorbed by a big company. Next one to end up first party Sony developer, I’d say Quantic Dream? Programmers in Japan dev studios are working like crazy and get paid like slaves. Is it...

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AAA today

I’m watching a couple of recent games on YouTube. There’s a lot of resource with walkthrough in good quality. I can’t believe Uncharted 2 won 10 awards at the DICE thing. I totally respect the amount of work and polishing (but hey, it’s a sequel) and I think that Naughty Dog is a great company. But ten...

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