Friday, February 8, 2008

Games So Good You Play Them


This is getting staggering. Check out this list at http://www.freeverse.com/games/ Most of the games are both Mac and PC; a few are just Mac. Nonetheless your type of game is there. Be prepared to spend some time. These games are by and large made with Unity, and are a strong demonstration of the game building tool.

The opportunity to be a game developer seems so manifest that the consideration of any other course of action seems painfully hostile. The amount of power given to an individual to combine assets and publish games is almost overwhelming -- as I said, staggering. This tool is better in the hands of a team, especially a small one. Yet an individual can master it, and apart from legions of 'just modelers', 'just animators', 'just coders', 'just artists'. For the developer, everything, even project management, sales and technical writing, are at some point required. Excel or Quicken or whatever on the back in, but flat files and visual asset-centered development on what amounts to our lethal front end. (Or, in the words of Homer Simpson, "Suck it all, losers!")

Anyway, check out that list of games, and tell me if you don't find one that you like.

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