I'm afraid I don't have any painting pictures to post today, although I've made some progress, our house is currently upside down as we are doing a load of renovation so getting a photo is more difficult that normal. Instead, I thought I'd point you in the direction of this that I came across in my standard trawling of the interwebs for 40K content (from someone elses link, although I don't remember where from so thank you whoever it was originally posted this). Its a pretty fascinating discourse on how game mechanics work, and their use in driving evolution in a game system, the fabled META that is always discussed, and of course sales.
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/perfect-imbalance (sorry, can't embed it).
Its a pretty fantastic presentation of what could otherwise be a very complex issue, and I'd very highly recommend you take 7mins to watch it, and I'd love to hear what you think of it too.
Cheers - Andy
I teach Game Design (computers, sadly) and Penny Arcade and it's other "channels" - particularly "Extra Credits" and pretty much Required Reading for my students.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen them till this link, but there are some fascinating things on there. I can see how you would require them for your course.
DeleteAs to teaching Game Design - cool!!! That must be pretty fascinating, how on earth did you get into such a career?
Great Link, I do love the etra credit videos. Have you seen the one on the Wireless Spectrum Crunch?
ReplyDeleteI'm just coming to know them, so haven't seen the one on Wireless Spectrum Crunch, I'll have to look it up.
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