tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-321029 2011-03-11T00:27:40-05:00 Game design comments by Patrick Redding TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834206da953ef014e5fc825d1970c 2011-03-11T00:27:40-05:00 2011-03-11T00:27:40-05:00

Clearly the above title was tailor-made to tempt karmic payback since I managed to delete my entire post within TypePad's form field after several hours of work by ham-handedly attempting to insert a summary break. Oh well. Nobody reads past 140 characters these days anyway. Short version: GDC 2011 was rad. Go find Mattias Worch's presentation, and as soon as they're available, Clint Hocking's and Kent Hudson's. Meanwhile, folks have been asking for the slides to my talk "Keep it...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2011/03/gdc-2011-getting-my-act-together.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834206da953ef0133ef9ca7fb970b 2010-06-02T00:22:48-04:00 2010-10-29T14:12:24-04:00

Something stirs. Now that it's The Future and it's suddenly trendy to dump on LOST, this seems like the perfect occasion to haul out a truly awful metaphor: I am Ben Linus, and I've just turned the big stone wheel and woken up three years later in Tunisia. Wearing a parka. But it's kinda what it feels like. One moment, I'm just cruising along in the relative calm after Far Cry 2 hits the shelves, enjoying some actual work-life balance...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2010/06/whummwhummwhummwhummwhummwhummwhumm.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-64972117 2009-04-01T21:30:02-04:00 2009-04-02T12:52:08-04:00

Because I want the folks who asked right away to have access to the visuals for these, and because I know my own weakness, I'm posting both sets of slides as-is, without notes (or many notes, anyway) forthwith. Because I'm giving both these talks internally at the studio in the next few days, I'll strive to get them annotated in short order and replace the naked versions.

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2009/04/i-left-my-heart-in-san-francisco-back-in-2008-apparently.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46596140 2008-03-04T23:32:10-05:00 2008-03-04T23:32:10-05:00

This just flat-out makes me smile. For the uninitiated, the late graphic designer Saul Bass was responsible for some of the most iconic film titles sequences of the 1950s and 60s, notably Hitchcock's Vertigo and North By Northwest as well as The Man With The Golden Arm and the screen adaptation of Leon Uris' Exodus. He also gave us the AT&T globe logo. Design student and YouTuber 'bhilmers' describes his homage to Bass' distinctive graphic style as what the titles...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2008/03/the-audacity-of.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46547464 2008-03-04T01:15:07-05:00 2008-03-04T01:15:07-05:00

Somewhere around 11pm last night I discovered that Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder has been systematically posting the highlights of the TED Conference. I swore to not look at any of this cool stuff until I'd finished annotating my slides. Not because I'm particularly diligent, but because I knew that watching even one of these visual communciation masterpieces would be utterly demoralizing... As promised - and naturally, somewhat belatedly - I've uploaded the monster slide deck for my talk at this...

predding http://holesinteeth.typepad.com/blogginess/2008/03/gdc-2008-slides.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46227982 2008-02-26T23:30:48-05:00 2008-02-26T23:30:48-05:00

Yeah okay I'm back. Right now my patented TypePad List Of Posts is littered with the half-formed abortia of various points I had wanted to get across between now and whenever it was I finished Portal and Call of Duty 4, and started playing Assassin's Creed. It was kind of a watershed moment for me, frankly. But apparently I was too euphoric to complete whole sentences and hit the Publish button. But inevitably, my brief honeymoon with the beanstalk-like Stack...

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