Erin Hoffman Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Inside Job: Tools of the Trade

A challenge that is arguably sharpest when it comes to game development is the constantly shifting, advancing, growing nature of computer hardware and ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorJune 6, 2008

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Inside Job: Revisiting Quality of Life

This week’s Inside Job will strategically deviate from the normal rhythm of these columns to address feedback from a recent revisitation on quality ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorMay 29, 2008

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Inside Job: It Takes a Method

In the past week I received three media requests for interviews, all wanting to know the same thing: What’s going on? Do things ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorMay 2, 2008

Post Mortem

Cyberpunked: the Fall of Black9

Throughout the entire bizarre rollercoaster that was the ea_spouse period, I never asked anyone to stop buying EA games. A lot of people ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorApril 22, 2008

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Inside Job: Toward the Future of Game Design

Following this month’s “student series”-final game design degree treatment, this week we have for your review some commentary on the study of game ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorApril 18, 2008

It Came From Japan

Hail to the Kitty

She’s pretty. She’s pink. And she has no soul. You know of whom I speak. The strange white cat with the empty eyes, ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorApril 15, 2008

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My Perfect Game Design Degree

To close out the student series of Inside Job, I want to recklessly tackle head-on what appears to me a glaring lack in ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorApril 4, 2008

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Inside Job: Lessons from the Street II

Earlier this month, I set out to consolidate folk wisdom from the games industry for the anecdotal benefit of students and developers new ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorMarch 21, 2008

Editor's Choice

Enhancing Humanity

“Humanity has always lived in both a ‘real’ or physical world and also in a ‘virtual’ world. The real world demands that humans ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorMarch 11, 2008

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Inside Job: Lessons from the Street

The train ride to SFO from GDC, which two years ago replaced the cab or fragrant car rental from San Jose, is a ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorMarch 7, 2008

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Inside Job: Interview: Zeitgeist Games Founder & Full Sail Real World Education Course Director Dustin Clingman

For this first follow-up on the student series, I caught up with Dustin Clingman, cofounder of Zeitgeist Games and Course Director of the ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorFebruary 15, 2008

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Inside Job: Why the Future is Important

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”– Albert Einstein It’s a ...

By Erin Hoffman Legacy AuthorFebruary 1, 2008

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