“After eight years as a games journalist and two as a part time developer, I have decided what I think of games: I like them. I’ve also figured out some of the reasons I like them, some of the reasons I sometimes don’t, and which of these things I really care about.”
http://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/
Point&Click + Animation
Donne quelques interviews intéressantes depuis qu’il a annoncé qu’il quittait Lionhead (Black&White, Fable), le studio qu’il a fondé il y a 15 ans après avoir quitté Bullfrog qu’il avait aussi fondé (et à qui on doit Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Magic Carpet etc.)
http://www.develop-online.net/features/1617/Molyneux-This-is-my-last-chance
My point is that there’s no game that encapsulates a hobby. The closest we’ve got is World of Warcraft. The thing about hobbies, when you think about them, be it gardening or fishing or whatever, is that people do these things for years. Why can’t we have a game that feels more like that, in which you can dip into and dip out of over the course of a very long time?
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall all those years ago when the producers and writers for [Longstanding British Soap Opera] Coronation Street first sat down and discussed this show they wanted to make.
“We’re going to make this TV series,” the writers would say.
“Okay, what’s the story”, the execs would reply.
“Well there isn’t one. It’s just a street.”
“Okay… what happens to the street? Does it blow up?”
“No. Not much happens. All sorts of little things happen.”
“Right, what’s the story though?”
“Well we’re going to write it, as we go, for 50 years. It will be the most watched show in Britain.”
I mean, how did they do this?! How was this conceived?! How? How did it happen? It’s an unbelievably brave idea. A TV series that will last forever. It sounds impossible. I can’t imagine how it was ever commissioned. But it’s here.
The thing about Minecraft is that Markus Persson did something on his own and wasn’t constrained by the foundations of games design.
These foundations – things like progression, and scores, and teaching the player – have become features that people assume are essential in all games. They are weighing us down more than anything.
A lot of the time in this industry we forget that we’re supposed to be making great games and just get caught up in this treadmill.
Markus just threw people into his world and left them to it. No beginning. No end. The gift was giving people a world to play with. The genius was not adhering to those old stale rules of game play.
There is an approach to making this new game that’s crucial to us. We have to design it in layers. What I want to do is have something playable in a matter of weeks. From that point onwards we are going to play it and refine and refine it until it’s ready.
et une autre
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/
Un petit bout de l’histoire de quelqu’un qui a travaillé sur Windows, sur Quake, a indirectement contribué à Half-Life et travaille maintenant chez Valve. C’est aussi - et surtout - intéressant car il explique comment fonctionne le management chez Valve, à savoir très différemment de beaucoup de boîtes.
http://drawception.com et http://doodleordie.com
qui appliquent tous les deux le principe du téléphone arabe au dessin. Une idée simple mais efficace!
Terry Cavanagh (connu entre autres pour VVVVV) présente une sélection de jeux indies gratuits pleins de gros pixels qui tachent
Afficher en haute résolution
Du potentiel du génératif.
Xiaohan’s been working hard on improving the terrain generation.
La fiction interactive, c’est la descendance des vieux jeux d’aventure en texte.
Playfic, du prolifique Andy Baio permet de générer des fictions interactive via un langage de programmation proche du langage naturel.
http://waxy.org/2012/02/introducing_playfic/
Inform 7 is incredibly awesome and weird. For example, this is a fully functional game:
East of the Garden is the Gazebo. Above is the Treehouse. A billiards table is in the Gazebo. On it is a trophy cup. A starting pistol is in the cup. In the Treehouse is a container called a cardboard box.Type that into Playfic, and you end up with this simple game, ready to send to the world.
Van Gogh interfactif
Afficher en haute résolution
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/15/igf-factor-2012-storyteller/
Storyteller, une sorte de jeu où l’ont construit une courte histoire sous forme de vignette interactive dont on peut changer les éléments - pour en changer l’histoire.
C’est difficile à expliquer, allez voir ;)
Il y a un prototype jouable ici: http://www.ludomancy.com/games/StoryTeller.html
(j’en avais entre-autres parlé à Martin)
12i, de Marcio Ambrosio, dont je parlais à Martin
Marcio est un ancien animateur qui est passé à l’art numérique interactif
12i sera exposé en mars à iMAL: http://imal.org/fr/activity/12i
Une excellente série d’interview des différents finalistes de l’Independent Games Festival. Ça en fait une très bonne introduction à la scène indie - qui sont ces gens, que font-ils, d’où viennent-ils, comment travaillent-ils? - et illustre sa grande diversité.
