Leading game designers from every corner of the discipline will once again gather at Nyu for the Practice: Game Design in Detail conference, taking place Friday, November 15 through Sunday November 17 at 19 West 4th Street in Manhattan. Practice is an annual event that takes a close look at the concrete challenges of game design, bridging dialog across industries, genres, and disciplines. The conference is specifically designed to facilitate a high-level exchange of ideas among professional game designers, encompassing lectures, panels, social events and play. This year marks the third in which Nyu has hosted Practice, and continues the tradition of drawing a wide range of expert speakers, including videogame veterans such as Warren Spector (Thief, Deus Ex) and Soren Johnson (Spore,...
- 10/22/2013
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Ernie Liang Christopher Tin
Award shows come and go without much afterthought but this year’s Grammy Awards will be remembered as a musical milestone for the video game industry and Christopher Tin. The 34-year-old composer from Santa Monica, Calif. won two Grammys for “Baba Yetu”, a song he composed for 2K Games’ Civilization IV and for a follow-up album that was inspired by the game. It’s the first time that video game music has ever been awarded a Grammy.
Award shows come and go without much afterthought but this year’s Grammy Awards will be remembered as a musical milestone for the video game industry and Christopher Tin. The 34-year-old composer from Santa Monica, Calif. won two Grammys for “Baba Yetu”, a song he composed for 2K Games’ Civilization IV and for a follow-up album that was inspired by the game. It’s the first time that video game music has ever been awarded a Grammy.
- 3/4/2011
- by Dennis Nishi
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Videogame designers, including industry pioneers, are betting on Facebook as the next gaming platform. With 500 million users, this could mean big money.
The wildly popular videogames Doom and Quake have been accused of everything from preaching Satanism to inspiring the Columbine school shooting. By comparison, the latest game from one of the original Doom and Quake designers could be found guilty of nothing worse than inspiring children to set up lemonade stands.
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If John Romero's earlier games were marked by gore, his Ravenwood Fair is as clean as a Singapore sidewalk. In Quake, gremlins feasted on corpses. In Ravenwood Fair you guide a raccoon or bear around a forest, felling trees and erecting carnival attractions in the clearings. Should you encounter a monster, you simply scare it off with a few mouse clicks. But though Ravenwood Fair lacks the bluster of Romero's early shooters,...
The wildly popular videogames Doom and Quake have been accused of everything from preaching Satanism to inspiring the Columbine school shooting. By comparison, the latest game from one of the original Doom and Quake designers could be found guilty of nothing worse than inspiring children to set up lemonade stands.
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If John Romero's earlier games were marked by gore, his Ravenwood Fair is as clean as a Singapore sidewalk. In Quake, gremlins feasted on corpses. In Ravenwood Fair you guide a raccoon or bear around a forest, felling trees and erecting carnival attractions in the clearings. Should you encounter a monster, you simply scare it off with a few mouse clicks. But though Ravenwood Fair lacks the bluster of Romero's early shooters,...
- 12/18/2010
- by Ben Crair
- The Daily Beast
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