lucasrizoli @lucasrizoli@mastodon.social

"These are very resourceful people, and I’m sure they can design games that don’t rely on gambling directed at children in the center of the game."

Uh. Sure.

https://kotaku.com/u-s-senator-says-his-anti-loot-box-bill-has-the-video-1834905639

"The dark side of [randomization] can be a game that keeps the player playing even when the novel experiences have run dry… it can be a facade over an endless grind…

"By the time your game stops having something new to show the player, it should make a graceful exit rather than try to compel the player to stick around."

https://gdcvault.com/play/1025732/-Mooncrash-Resetting-the-Immersive

What an asshole.

"The hunka-chunka."

Enough with the Joseph Campbell. Please.

Interesting how limitations of playtests & demos—participant pools, methods, individual/group, etc.—made for a successful interface per se, but did not speak to whether it'd received well by existing players (though neither did the "listen to the community" methods, which exaggerated negative aspects).

[Behind GDC paywall, unfortunately.]

https://gdcvault.com/play/1025823/Changing-Navigation-Mid-Flight-War

"We're approaching the end of these kinds of [open-world] video game, or at least something, I feel, needs to change…

"I've never played Rage 2 but I've seen that this this is all so familiar to me… I feel like no one's taking big risks."

https://youtu.be/ma4cWG09viY?t=1851

"Despite its developers’ reticence to talk about it at this stage, Breakpoint does seem like a work that’s trying to remove itself from a political minefield…

"It is, however, quite far from apolitical. It’s still a work of hardcore military fiction, a jingoist fantasy that fetishizes guns and spec ops training that filters the world into threats and the threatened."

https://kotaku.com/the-new-ghost-recon-s-setting-may-sidestep-the-last-gam-1834646419

Wired has been making the CIA seem friendly and fun lately. Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bt7HPKSMnE

"The company is worried that if the designers' names were known, then Rex or mark might have gotten a better offer at another company. They might have broken out of 'deep engineering' and been able to get a different job."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4UFC0y1tY0

…which is particularly bad when I want to record my first experience with a game. Very frustrating.

who called it "the video game industry" and not "burnout paradise"

https://twitter.com/joeypockett/status/1121816773479804929