GDC Developers rant...

[Mat Linnett]

Gleaned this link from the good folk over at YakYak.
It's a transcript of a bunch of developers bitching about what's bad in the gaming industry at the moment, and has some very interesting points:

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EDIT:
Oh, and you could do worse than follow the link to http://www.experimentalgameplay.com
There's some cool stuff there.

[4days]

some of those experimental gameplay things are great

the rant's a good read as well, the bit about commercially driven development stood out. mainstream gaming's in danger of going the same way as music and cinema - speedily produced, irredemably vapid, disposable unit-shifters.

movie tie-ins are the worst culprits - games that cost about the same as anything else, but play like you're shouting orders at a drunken spastic on an ice rink - shitty physics, unresponsive controls, absence of playability - would it really be that dangerous to make a movie, then find someone who likes it to try and make a good game (e.g. riddick)?

they make a good point about separating funding from distribution - but it'd be nice if until then, there were just a few more publishers/backers with enough vision of their own to get behind things that could become a success on their own merits.

[4days]

tower of goo's the best one:
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/experim ... rOfGoo.exe

[phantasmagoria]

tower of goo's the best one:
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/experim ... rOfGoo.exe

fuck me, this is fun

edit: aww i've run out of goo

[U4EA]

I liked that :icon14:

[glossy]

very interesting, spent the last hour on that site, the experementalgameplay site and all the linked ones from there.

whoops