Haha, what happened?
March 16, 2011 - Features
What happened is that I got way too excited about the previous post on conversation systems, and ran off to make the game Diego and I were talking about in comments. A year later I’m still working on data structures. But they’re totally rad data structures! Anyway, I got all worked up about this post by Chris Bateman and decided to get the blog going again. Since I’ve been gone, Stephen Lavelle went broke and people are already having the INDIE GAMES SOLD OUT conversation, but I ain’t gonna let that stop me.
Related Posts
Words as Actions Shortly before my blog's hiatus, I wrote this post, in which I talk about the kind of conversation systems you see in games. I was particularly concerned with the lack of variety as […]
Daniel Benmergui and the Gulf of Execution
In the study of human-computer interaction, a user's uncertainty about how a system will respond to her actions is sometimes referred to as the "gulf of execution," in Donald Norman's […]
4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness (2009) Petri Purho has come up with a brilliant border case of a game in 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness, the most memorable entry from the recent Global Game Jam. Inspired by John Cage's […]