Shannon Drake Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Interviews

Wrapped Inside A Mystery In An Engima: Perplex City Revisited

It’s been about six months since we visited the mysterious world of Perplex City. The time for an update was nigh, so I ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorFebruary 14, 2007

Can't Get it Out of My Head

The Introversion Aesthetic

One thing you must remember above all things is this: Uplink doesn’t smile. It doesn’t smirk about how clever we are for acknowledging ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorFebruary 13, 2007

Interviews

eSim Games and Steel Beasts Q&A, Part 2

In Part 1 of our Q&A, we touched on the basics and talked all about eSim Games and how they make their pro-level ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorFebruary 8, 2007

What Were the Odds?

Ion’s Other Game

After Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 shuffled off the shelves and Daikatana collapsed under a pile of hype and dead frogs, Ion Storm ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2007

Interviews

eSim Games and Steel Beasts Q&A, Part 1

Continuing with this issue’s theme of Serious Games, I talked to Nils Hinrichsen of eSim Games about their flagship product, Steel Beasts. While ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorFebruary 2, 2007

Interviews

Q&A With Simon Hill, Producer and Designer, The Ship

The Ship is one of my favorite Half-Life 2 mods, a mixture of 1930s detective flavor, The Sims need management, and frantic stabbing ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJanuary 31, 2007

Op-Ed

The Design Of Everyday Things

My latest nonfiction read was Donald A. Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. Norman’s central theme is design – what makes good design, ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJanuary 25, 2007

News

Open Up And Say Ahhhsome

Some dream of fortune and glory on the stage of rock, and some are lucky enough to make it up there under the ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJanuary 19, 2007

The Beat Goes On

Sephiroth Saves The Symphony

It’s intimidating, knowing you’re talking with a Grammy winner and accomplished composer like Arnie Roth, so setting the tone early is key. I ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJanuary 16, 2007

News

Cynical Futurism

Predicting the future is a tricky proposition. Miss Cleo got shut down, and late night TV commercials have never been the same. As ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2007

News

EduSportsGaming

John Madden – for all his turduckens, catchphrases and lame color commentary – taught me the game of football. For that, I owe ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorJanuary 5, 2007

News

Commodore Impulse Reports For Duty

You know that one girl or game or TV show or indulgence of choice that you just can’t get away from? I know ...

By Shannon Drake Legacy AuthorDecember 29, 2006

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