The day after the horrifying Orlando shooting, a friend was inviting me to play Overwatch. It was a weird moment. I felt like, I don’t know—maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t feel like running around with a gun shooting at people right at that moment for some reason. Some E3 events began that […]
Feminists/social progressives: stop making excuses for violence glorification Read More »
This week, I’m talking about FPS (First Person Shooter) games, something I’ve spent a good chunk of my life playing. I think we really misunderstand these things, as the correct distinction is probably just “shooter” – and probably it’s time that we moved on from them. If you enjoyed the episode, please consider becoming
CGD Podcast Episode 25 – On FPS Games Read More »
I did a Twitter poll recently: What would you say is the default/ideal number of players for strategy games? — Keith Burgun (@keithburgun) May 17, 2016 Most people (almost half!) voted that there “is no default/ideal”. That probably sounds like a safe, reasonable choice, but it’s really a pretty bold claim to say that there
The Default Number of Players is One Read More »
Today we have another episode with Frank Lantz, game designer, writer, and Director of the NYU Game Center. Today’s show involved two major topics: execution, and my seemingly crazy idea about how single-player should probably be the “default” number of players for a strategy game (something I’m going to be writing an article about soon).
CGD Podcast Episode 24 – Execution and Single-Player Games, with Frank Lantz Read More »
This will be less of a formal “article” and more of a “blog post”. Tonight, following last night’s podcast with Frank Lantz, game designer James Lantz (yes relation) made the following tweets: @keithburgun great podcast! i am still unconvinced on the idea of information horizon. randomness is not special, it’s just a multiplier — james
James Lantz’ Challenge to the “Information Horizon” Read More »
This week I had a great conversation with NYU Game Center director Frank Lantz about randomness and general game design philosophy. We meant to get to three other topics – execution, reading and improvisation, but not all-that-surprisingly, we never got there in the 70+ minutes of this episode. Mentioned in this episode: Frank’s “Against Design”
CGD Podcast Episode 23 – “On Games At the Games”, A Conversation with Frank Lantz Read More »
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