Reasons to Support Indie RPGs Cont’d.
2K Marin, the developer working on the X-Com series reboot, has become the latest big studio to take a turn at trashing classic turn-based games: “Every studio we had wanted to do it and each one had...
View ArticleReasons to Support Indie RPGs, Pt. 3
Word has it that the DRM inside EA’s hack-and-slash action RPG Darkspore has prevented anyone from playing the game for a week and a half now. We’re talking about a single player game that paying...
View ArticleReasons to Support Indie RPGs, Pt. 4
Diablo 3 has been pulling a Darkspore since its release yesterday, thanks to Blizzard’s bizarre decision to prevent people from playing the game in single player mode without a constant internet...
View ArticleAgainst the cult of simplicity
If you’ve spent any significant time going through my archive of design-focused articles, you probably know that I am allergic to dogmatic declarations about how to design games. Over the past four...
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