Click Nothing tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-315724 2012-01-12T20:11:11-05:00 design from a long time ago TypePad 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 I <3 Japan tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20147e3c99fff970b 2011-04-06T18:16:29-04:00 2011-04-06T18:16:29-04:00 I can't imagine that it is even possible that anyone who would end up on my blog would not have already been aware of this. Gamers Heart Japan is an initiative launched by Victor Lucas and Electric Playground to help... Clint Hocking Convergence Culture tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20147e3bb7ad4970b 2011-04-04T13:18:16-04:00 2011-04-04T13:18:16-04:00 Part Eight: Future Past Seven months ago when I started writing this column, I suspected the things I would be talking about were mostly wishful thinking. The idea that an increasingly entrenched game industry would see value in connecting casual,... Clint Hocking Convergence Culture tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2014e868b65d4970d 2011-03-07T01:18:19-05:00 2011-03-07T01:25:41-05:00 Part Seven: Agency Beyond the Magic Circle For the past six months, I have been writing about ways to build connections between different games, and by extension, their audiences. I've imagined fashion design games for portable platforms that feed clothing... Clint Hocking Convergence Culture tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20148c84f8670970c 2011-02-03T20:13:16-05:00 2011-02-03T20:13:40-05:00 Part Six: Platform Jumping For the last five parts of this series I talked around the issue of Single Player games and their place in the intramedia landscape I have been describing. I've looked at how social world building games... Clint Hocking Convergence Culture tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e20148c73a78fe970c 2011-01-01T17:24:14-05:00 2011-01-01T17:26:22-05:00 Part Five: Gaming Across the Fifth Dimension Revolutionary ideas in science, technology and philosophy don’t exist in isolation in academic institutes, government think tanks, or corporate R&D labs, they touch all aspects of our culture. The ideas of Copernicus, Galileo... Clint Hocking Convergence Culture tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345259b169e2013489a9ab4d970c 2010-12-01T19:52:05-05:00 2010-12-01T19:52:05-05:00 Part Four: An offer that can't be refused Thought Experiment One: imagine Pong, tweaked to be more exciting. Instead of showing the AI paddle on the other side of the screen, we hide from the player everything that happens over... Clint Hocking