Click Nothing tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-315724 2013-05-18T14:48:09-04:00 design from a long time ago TypePad IFOG Symposium tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2017eeb4f4f7b970d 2013-05-18T14:48:09-04:00 2013-05-18T14:48:09-04:00 Last week I was able to attend UCSC's Inventing the Future of games Symposium in Mountainview. Overall, I foudn the conference to be super interesting as it brought together a diverse range people who are working on the problems of... Clint Hocking La Dissonance ludo-narrative tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2017d41bd4818970c 2013-03-11T15:08:08-04:00 2013-03-11T15:08:08-04:00 (english follows) J'ai été contacté l'autre jour par quelque un en France qui a un blog sur le site GameKult. Lui a m'informer qu'il a tombé sur mon post de Bioshock et il avait aidé à articuler pour lui de... Clint Hocking Dynamics: the long and the short versions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2017ee88e616c970d 2013-02-16T17:48:39-05:00 2013-02-16T17:48:39-05:00 Last night was the opening night of the Art of Games exhibit at the EMP Museum, and along with several other great speakers from local the local industry, Valve co-worker Dave Kircher and I were there to give short talks... Clint Hocking Why Are We Here tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2017c36e1dc9a970b 2013-02-14T19:10:46-05:00 2013-02-14T19:10:46-05:00 Tomorrow night the Smithsonian's travelling Art of Video Games Exhibit opens at the EMP Museum here in Seattle. To celebrate the opening of the exhibit, the EMP is hosting the Game Night event which will feature lots of gaming, as... Clint Hocking I'm Sad... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2017743f830cf970d 2012-08-07T04:23:23-04:00 2012-08-07T04:32:06-04:00 I totally don’t have the time or the emotional energy to be writing this post, but in fact, I kind of feel like I don’t have the time to not write this post. You see, someone who I don’t know... Clint Hocking I left my job in San Fran-cisco tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2017742d14a1e970d 2012-06-29T01:04:51-04:00 2012-06-29T01:09:11-04:00 Yup, that's right, you heard it here first. Unless you heard it somewhere else first. I recently left my job at LucasArts and am moving on to something new. Unlike last time, (and mercifully less wordy) I already have something... Clint Hocking Trade Winds tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20167606e7997970b 2012-01-12T20:11:11-05:00 2012-01-12T20:11:11-05:00 Emeric Thoa, founder and Creative Director of French indie studio The Game Bakers, (and former editorial conception manager on Far Cry 2) put up a pretty interesting analysis of how the Apple App Store generates income for developers, and how... Clint Hocking First We Take Manhattan… tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20162fc6fe4ae970d 2011-11-15T16:42:49-05:00 2011-11-15T16:42:49-05:00 A couple weeks ago, The New Yorker ran a piece about Fumito Ueda, and his games Ico, and Shadow of the Colossus. It’s a good piece, and one that I am extremely happy to see running in such a prestigious... Clint Hocking [REDACTED] The Dominant Cultural Form of the 21st Century tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20154368f7895970c 2011-11-01T13:15:24-04:00 2011-11-01T13:20:33-04:00 Recently I was in an email discussion with some friends and colleagues (who will ironically go unnamed here) about the whole ‘game designers getting their name on the box’ debate. Putting the two related (but different) issues of credit standards... Clint Hocking Cost of Entry tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2015392944080970b 2011-10-25T14:58:40-04:00 2011-10-25T14:58:40-04:00 Damn. It's sure costing me a lot of money to leave this blog sitting here, doing nothing. I havent even had the time to get my GDC slides from 2011 up yet. I have wanted to go back and clean... Clint Hocking