{"id":1278,"date":"2011-05-29T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/05\/boooom\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T12:58:15","slug":"boooom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/05\/boooom\/","title":{"rendered":"Boooom"},"content":{"rendered":"


So\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

2010-2011, when the game industry exploded. Again.<\/p>\n

The Wii went down, hard. Guitar Hero died, the 3DS? Who really cares about this 3D fad. I can\u2019t track the numbers of AAA games with bad to abysmal sales, cancelled projects and people laid off. The Wii2 has been announced and nobody really cares either.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s market is more than tough (huge competition, prices too low) and for some reason success is always based on birds. Android doesn\u2019t generate as much money and is a development pain in the ass.<\/p>\n

In 2008 I couldn\u2019t imagine that three years later game development would look this way.<\/p>\n

Future exciting games? Spyparty<\/a>, The Witness<\/a>. I can\u2019t wait for these two and I admire the amount of sharing Chris and Jonathan are doing, along with great game designers like Daniel Cook. I mean these guys are sharing so much information and knowledge and being open about their development, it\u2019s so great. It\u2019s inspiring. It makes me want to play their games. L.A. Noire? 3D actors and missions annoy me. Six years of development for that, now you see how it doesn\u2019t really make sense financially. Portal 2? Well I could have played this one but I didn\u2019t because I know it\u2019s a good game (and I don\u2019t have a machine to run it, that\u2019s true) but it is still a sequel and I can\u2019t just get excited over a sequel anymore.<\/p>\n

Still reading Gamejournos<\/a> to persuade myself to not care about big computer game news websites. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m really happy to see success stories online, onSteam (yes, it\u2019s a word now). Platform agnosticism is gaining traction. Frozen Synapse is out<\/a>. Terraria sold 200K in nine days<\/a> (Terraria Vs Minecraft<\/a>). Of course word of mouth is better on a network like Steam or Facebook \u2013automatic status driving attention- but we can think about making games that connect to Twitter\/FB\/IM accounts out of walled garden too. It\u2019s up to us. <\/p>\n

I see a trend where indie games are finally, giving up the 8bit-nostalgia-hardcore-nerd aesthetic. As one would say, \u2018bout time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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