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The Case for Traditional Education for Prospective Industry Candidates  |
| Posted by Andrew Calhoun on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:30:00 EDT in
Business,
Game Design
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| Proprietary schools offer tantalizing programs and accelerated degrees, but traditional education has advantages that might give candidates a distinctive edge in the long run, and other opportunities for those whose dreams might not or are slow to develop |
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Starcraft II, Blizzard, and the Power of Doing What Works |
| Posted by Andrew Calhoun on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:33:00 EDT in
Game Design,
Production
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| Fun is not something guaranteed by innovation, but by forming a solid core that is accessible and relatively simple. Blizzard seems to have nailed down the x-factor of fun and doing what works with its products, as evidenced by Starcraft II. |
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Andrew Calhoun's Comments
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Comment In: Breaking a Visually Art-Centric Generation [Blog - 09/18/2010 - 01:54]
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Your point on graphical icing ... Your point on graphical icing is well taken. That being said, I think the emphasis on higher end graphics in AAA games results from a consumer base that has either become increasingly jaded, demanding increasingly epic one up manship in art design, or simply has become so over saturated with ... |
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Comment In: I Want My Games In Bite Sized Chunks! [Blog - 09/17/2010 - 11:48]
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Yup, as a core gamer ... Yup, as a core gamer with increasingly limited time, sliced between keeping up with work, the entertainment industry as a whole, writing a novel, and upping my portfolio so I can hopefully enter industry, lower temporal footprint distractions are great. Bite sized games help ease stress and don't require the ... |
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Comment In: Opinion: Sex and The Male Psychology -- Catherine [News - 09/16/2010 - 10:07]
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Interesting article. Might be worth ... Interesting article. Might be worth having a push to have this game translated and sent to the Americas and Europe. The only issues that i can find is here in the USA we have to deal with prudish ideals of sex and people who see even implied sexuality as a ... |
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Comment In: The Case for Traditional Education for Prospective Industry Candidates [Blog - 09/13/2010 - 08:30]
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I suppose it might be ... I suppose it might be unfair to decry someone who does not have a game system, but it just seemed illogical to me that someone would put in something like a 80,000 to 100,000 investment in something that they really had very little contact with. Go figure. |
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