Designing, programming, testing, and debugging Legionnaire required all of four months; I put the game on sale in May of 1979. Since it did not include an expensive map, I could not in good conscience demand as much for it… Continue Reading
I had a few hundred copies of the map printed up, and I made cardboard counters using blank counters and rub-on numerals. I copied cassette tapes on my PET and labeled them by hand. I typed up a manual and… Continue Reading
When in the summer of 2001 two movies, Shrek and Final Fantasy, competed for ticket sales, and Shrek outsold Final Fantasy by ten to one, the computer games people were nonplussed. How could a graphically inferior product like Shrek have… Continue Reading
Chris Crawford to jedna z legend branży, twórca kilku pozycji poświęconych tworzeniu gier, a także definicji tego medium. A niedawno trafiłem na taki oto jego ciekawe spostrzeżenie. Good games do not simulate physical reality; they mirror emotional reality. Chris Crawford
Patton from Broderbund was designed by legendary game designer Chris Crawford. He reasoned that war games are fun, yet only a small percentage of game players are buying them. Perhaps that would change if there were a new type of… Continue Reading
The industry was still torn because it was so much easier to design the video games, and they did seem to sell to a group of people who weren’t affected by the crash. We really teetered on that fence. Which… Continue Reading
Zapaść rynku gier wideo w 1983, nazywana w Japonii Atari shock – wielkoskalowa recesja przemysłu gier komputerowych, która miała miejsce w latach 1983–1985, przede wszystkim na terenie Stanów Zjednoczonych. Spowodowała bankructwo wielu producentów komputerów domowych i konsol gier wideo w… Continue Reading
That actually started back in 1966, when I was a high school sophomore, and a friend of mine named David Zeuch introduced me to the Avalon Hill board wargames. We played those, and I thought they were a lot of… Continue Reading
Chris Crawford to jeden z “tych wielkich” gamdevu. Autor nie tylko gier przełomowych, ale także publikacji. No i, rzecz jasna, teoretyk game designu, a przy okazji założyciel Game Developers Conference. Would you describe the game development as like the voyage… Continue Reading
Się zmieniło nieco od czasów poradnika Chrisa Crawforda (tego od Eastern Front (1941) czy Balance of Power, choć dziś chyba bardziej znanego za sprawą The Art of Computer Game Design (1984) i Chris Crawford on Game Design (2003): Don’t make… Continue Reading