Geoffrey Zatkin is the COO of EEDAR and worked on the original Everquest who’s here to share some insight on the responsibilities of what a Game Designer really is.
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Old but Not Forgotten: An Ys The Oath of Felghana & Ys Origin Review
The PC has no shortage when it comes to great games. From FPSs to MMOs, and even MOBA-style games, there always has been a good reason for me to turn on my computer when I want to get gaming. On the other side of the coin, the RPG market has always felt somewhat barren. …
Challenges Worth Chasing
After spending 40 hours in front of a screen, you find yourself wanting to feel a sense of accomplishment when you step back outside. From my experience, most people don’t place importance on difficulty when deciding if a game is good or bad. While I don’t think that difficulty is all that makes a game …
Player Two Press Start
As a gamer I have long shouldered the stereotype that I live in my mother’s basement while only coming out to restock energy drinks. I can say from personal experience that not all gamers like to keep to themselves, they just like doing the things that make them happy, just like anyone else. When your …
Super Smash Bros. Melee at EVO
The EVO championship series is the largest fighting game tournament in the world and happens every year in Las Vegas. This year they held a fundraiser where the game that raised the most gets to be a main event at EVO, and long story short, Smash Bros Melee won. Melee, in short, is the second …
Competitive Games and Fun
Gamers want games that are fun, but games are fun for many different reasons and it can be hard sometimes to understand why. Some gamers want games that do different things, play with different people, and sometimes you just hate a game and never want to play it again. Competitive games affect our physiology and …
A Beginner’s Guide to the Fighting Game Community
The Fighting Game Community, or FGC, is one of the many different communities that make up the gamer culture. It’s a community that is growing in popularity and following the footsteps of larger competitive communities such as Starcraft and League of Legends, but is also one of the oldest gamer cultures dating back to 1991. …
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate Review
It’s been three years since Mercury Steam Castlevania Lords of Shadow, and now, we have its sequel. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate is a 2.5D action/platformer for the Nintendo 3DS and takes place in between the original Lords of Shadow and Lords of Shadow 2 due to be released later this year. The …
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Review
It’s summer 2008. The mastermind behind the Metal Gear series, Hideo Kojima, has just released the epitome of a cinematic video game masterpiece: Metal Gear Solid 4. It didn’t take long for him to start cooking up ideas for his next game. He had many ideas brewing up. One being Metal Gear Solid Peace …
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