Ideas

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How BioShock Infinite’s Creators Are Crafting Adventure From Labor Strife, Dead Horses And The Energy Of The Tea Party

4:00AM March 25, 2011 | StephenTotilo

Some time ago, game designer Ken Levine commented wryly about the shallow pool from which video game creators get their ideas. More »


In Real Life

A Peek At The Primordial Scrawlings Of Game Developers

2:00PM February 4, 2011 | Owen Good

The idea for a video game must begin in someone’s mind. From there, it’s first expression isn’t necessarily digital. Notebooks and paper napkins often carry the first scrawls of the next big hit. One person is chronicling them. More »


Can’t Play, Won’t Play

2:40AM November 11, 2010 | Margaret Robertson

I like neologisms. We need new words because we have new ideas, and ideas are the only things that break the law of the conservation of energy. More »


In Real Life

Are You Playing A Video Game Before You Are Playing It?

7:00AM February 24, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

Last week, Will Wright was talking in New York City and saying brainy things. Among them was an idea I’d never considered before, that will play the virtual reality that is a video game before they play it. More »


In Real Life

John Carmack And The Hideo Kojima Sunset

3:40AM August 25, 2009 | Stephen Totilo

Famed Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima once told me that there was something beautiful he’d been striving his whole career to create in video games: the perfect sunset. I recently asked John Carmack what his sunset is. More »