Greg Tito Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

GDC 2010

Ensemble Studio Member Blames Crunch For Failure

The Rant at GDC is a chance for developers to air their grievances with no boundaries on decorum, but, instead of railing against ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 15, 2010

GDC 2010

How Can Videogames Make Us Cry?

Richard Rouse III, designer of The Suffering, listed five different tools that designers can use to elicit an emotional response in gamers. People ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 13, 2010

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Blizzard May License Battle.Net In The Future

Rob Pardo from Blizzard said that the team has been improving the matchmaking in Battle.net and they’ve thought about licensing the service to ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 13, 2010

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GDC 2010: Game Design Challenge – Real Life Perma-death

Game designers pitch their design documents to the audience and they pick the best iteration on the theme, which this year was “real ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 13, 2010

GDC 2010

Fable 3: Bro-hugging Peter Molyneux

During his presentation on intuitive design at GDC 2010, Peter Molyneux talked a lot about what he learned from making Fable 1 and ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 13, 2010

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Portal ARG Still Ongoing

A Valve executive said that the Portal ARG was created by the game’s designers as a way to extend the story and there ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 13, 2010

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Liveblog: Sid Meier’s GDC 2010 Keynote Speech

The keynote for this year’s GDC is game design legend, Sid Meier and he tells us that everything we know about game design ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 12, 2010

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GDC Microtalks: “I Want The Pride And Prejudice Of Games”

A fixture at the Game Developers Conference, microtalks are a chance for designers to speak on short topics like pirate parties and love ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 12, 2010

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Where Blizzard’s Design Philosophy Failed (And Succeeded)

Blizzard’s Rob Pardo spoke about the core tenets of the company’s design philosophy and outlined specific failures and successes. Speaking at GDC 2010, ...

By Greg Tito Legacy AuthorMarch 12, 2010

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