gamedesign-l at Yahoo! Groups

Developers competition

mahlerdave80 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:45:22 GMT

Saw that in Techcrunch, this competition should interest the group: http://www.beamindblower.com. It is a competition for software developers involving a new

Re: leveling up my yogurt

BGB — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:58:52 GMT

... From: Brandon Van Every To: gamedesign-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [gamedesign-l] Re: leveling up my yogurt

Re: leveling up my yogurt

Brandon Van Every — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:10 GMT

... Umm but is Freeciv an ongoing neurosis, a display of OCD, or a meditation that's going to lead to some kind of revelation? Lord knows the amount of time

Re: leveling up my yogurt

TAZ — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:27:31 GMT

LOL, that's a fun 'rant'. I honestly never thought about doing a grind in order to level up my yogurt. However, the dangerous line of thought here is that you

Re: publishers stop glutting Xmas

BGB — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:22:34 GMT

hmm... christmas themed game specials... "Its a very HL2 Christmas": defend tree from wave after wave of headcrabs and combine with santa caps... even the

publishers stop glutting Xmas

Brandon Van Every — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:56:59 GMT

Too many poor people. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25836 "What that says to me is that the pinch from the recession started even

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Brandon Van Every — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:32:07 GMT

... Things are *never* equal when money is on the line. Cheers, Brandon Van Every [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Rainer Deyke — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:35:23 GMT

... They can only do one set of activities at a time, therefore they have to choose. They can choose differently five seconds later. ... All else being equal.

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Brandon Van Every — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:16:22 GMT

... I disagree. I think people are under vastly unequal pressures. Someone with a stable income, a good sex life, and a fulfilling social network is not

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Rainer Deyke — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:51:10 GMT

... All people need some sort of outlet or they will eventually crack. Games aren't the only possible outlet. People can also daydream, watch movies,

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Brandon Van Every — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:51:24 GMT

... I'm harping on the phrase "so they don't have to in real life." The vast majority of people aren't going to act out any destructive tendencies in real

leveling up my yogurt

Brandon Van Every — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:24:20 GMT

Stonyfield yogurt has this thing where they distribute codes on the tops of their yogurt lids. If you go to their website http://www.mystonyfieldrewards.com ,

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Rainer Deyke — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:07:30 GMT

... How that different from what I said? People have destructive urges. This is equivalent to saying that people find destruction fun. Games let people act

Re: Roguelikes definitions [was: Tempting players to do "Evil"]

Gerry Quinn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:39:32 GMT

From: "Brandon Van Every" ... Tactical complexity, I will agree, tends to be a bit lower in realtime games. That said, roguelikes and

Re: Tempting players to do "Evil"

Brandon Van Every — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:53:20 GMT

... Perhaps it would be better if you called it "playing immorally" then. Maybe that's splitting hairs, maybe it isn't. With regards to books, what would it