- Ask the Experts: The Game Designer's Bookshelf
[09.10.08]
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In the latest ‘Ask the Experts' advice column, a reader asks for some reading material to get himself better acquainted with matters of game design. Columnist and editor Jill Duffy gathered a list of recommendations from successful students and recent graduates of game development, just the sort of people who have been reading the latest titles-and know whether they're of any use!
- GameCareerGuide.com's Game Design Challenge: Marketing Bullets
[09.10.08]
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Snappy, enticing, provocative: That's what this week's game design challenge is looking for in bullet points that will be used on the retail box of a new video game. Read on to find out what the game is and to figure out how you will make it fly from the shelves.
- Tara Teich, LucasArts Programmer
[09.09.08]
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Tara Teich is a lead AI and gameplay engineer at LucasArts, with a BS in computer science from Northwestern University. GameCareerGuide.com’s Jill Duffy interviewed her recently on how she got into the game industry, and where she thinks game programmers should be focusing their time and energy today.
- Results from Game Design Challenge: Weapon
[09.04.08]
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In a recent design challenge, you were given the opportunity of designing a new weapon for a first-person shooter game. This was a difficult assignment for most. It's easy to get caught up in the game world and not in the actual functionality of the gun itself when thinking of a weapon, but we found three solutions that managed to pull it off.
- Documents of Newly Published Xbox Live Game Made Public
[09.03.08]
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Two official documents that got a new game, Shred Nebula, published on Xbox Live Arcade have been released to the public by James Goddard, CEO and founder of CrunchTime Games, Inc. The papers are being made available to foster more open communication between the professional industry and students of game development.
- Game Design Challenge: Fantasy RPG Quest
[09.03.08]
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Each Wednesday, GameCareerGuide poses a game design or game development challenge to solve, and readers an invited to send in their solutions. This week's challenge is to outline a story (200 words or fewer) for a quest for a fantasy RPG.
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