http://designing-games.com A blog about games, gamers and game design Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:15:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our student project "The Deadline" was mentioned in a short article within the latest issue of GameStar (11/2010). Final conclusion of the GameStar editors: "Play it!" [German: "Unbedingt spielen"]. It's great to see that a well-established magazine like GameStar recommends our game so strongly. If you haven't played The Deadline yet, ... http://designing-games.com/the-deadline-in-gamestar-112010/ Written in two months, counting over 20.000 words and taking into account more than 60 references - my bachelor-thesis is finally done, printed and submitted! As I already wrote in an earlier post the topic of my work were episodic games or to be more precise: “From Daily Soap to ... http://designing-games.com/from-daily-soap-to-monthly-game/ The one and only magazine for game development in Germany, Making Games, celebrates its fifth birthday this month and I had the honor to contribute an article to this anniversary issue. It’s a post mortem for The Deadline and deals with the issues of developing a game in only six ... http://designing-games.com/article-in-making-games-magazine/ The last days my girlfriend and I played DeathSpank and had a lot of fun with it! So much fun that she even was inspired to draw this: As you probably already guessed she played as Sparkles while I was DeathSpank! Hero to the Downtrodden! Vanquisher of Evil! Dispenser of Justice! P.S. ... http://designing-games.com/hero-to-the-downtrodden-vanquisher-of-evil-dispenser-of-justice/ Currently I'm reading some really interesting books for my bachelor-thesis, which is about "Episodic Games". Unfortunately nobody has written a book about this topic, yet. So I'm reading a lot of stuff about the episodic format in television and I must admit that there's a lot I didn't know about ... http://designing-games.com/books-for-bachelor-thesis/ Hi everybody, it looks pretty empty around here, doesn't it? Well I hope I get the time to fill this blog with something interesting. So long you can at least find out more about me and my projects. Have fun! http://designing-games.com/cleaning-up/