Comments on: McGonigal’s Year In Review

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:36:48 +0000

Meat Circus could do with actually reading some of the longer collections of works linked by the article and blog post :)

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:15:04 +0000

Is ‘futurologist’ a word that means ‘prone to spewing meaningless buzzword-heavy drivel’?

That’s what it looks like to me.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:18:52 +0000

That’s a really nice article. Portal makes me think that the next ‘obvious’ gameplay mechanic to master is Time Travel. But there are a lot of ideas out there that are now much, MUCH more plausible than they might have been a year ago, brought on by the rise and rise of Steam, the advent of Portal and so on. As every year goes by and more innovation gets brought to the fore, people get closer to making games design an actual feat of design.

What I think I like most about that piece – it’s probably true of the blog, I’ve not seen it before – is that she really does treat the field as something that can be thought about. It’s not something that you sit down and think, “Hell, what’s gameplay? Let’s put in arcade elements. Let’s get a story on paper.” You can actually approach it from an entirely different angle – an angle that doesn’t even end up with a game being published or money being made. There are things out there we’re seeing for the first time. Jim’s article on Gamers Saving The World made me think similar things the first time I saw it in PCG.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:18:38 +0000

mmmk. Raise your hand if you read the title and instantly thought of how Gryffindor won the house cup or the wrap up of a quidditch season.

… anyone?