Darksiders inspired many to proclaim that the mature Zelda has finally arrived. Certainly the game was absolutely amazing. I bought the sequel without hearing a thing about it. That said, I think a case can be made that the From Software games, Demons Souls and Dark Souls, better fit that lofty title of adult Zelda game.
“What programming languages do you know?”
I started writing this quite a few weeks ago when the announcement was made that Adobe will no longer support the mobile Flash player. Since Flash is something I use on a regular basis I wanted to weigh in on this development, but bear in mind this has been mostly picked apart by analysts with similar conclusions.
No this isn’t an article about determinism. I recently did some digging through YouTube for advice on writing because I feel it’s a worthwhile skill for a game developer to have. A certain point made by Christopher Hitchens during an interview stuck with me and prompted me to apply it to game development. He basically said that if you have to write, that it never occurred to you that you can exist without it, then you’ll be fine because it’s what you’re meant to be doing. I would say the same about game development, or any pursuit in life.
There are plenty of people who like the Kinect judging from sales data. I’m a bit ambivalent but I think there are great experiences to be had with the device. The one thing that does get me going however are Kinect menu systems. I think we’d all be better off if people could only pick up the controller and use voice commands. The developers are not to blame for this by the way, they do what they can.
Elements of Computing Systems is a course developed by two professors that felt computer science students weren’t being given a practical understanding of how computers work as a whole. Many topics in this course tend to be glossed over in the current university and college curricula. Having been through college, I can fairly say we were taught practically none of this material. I decided to take this on in my down time, and can say that it’s fascinating. It fills in many gaps that I had in understanding the ultimately simple construction of these systems.
After a long hiatus I’m back to cover another game. This time it’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. I played on the PC version both with and without a controller. If you haven’t read the previous article on Final Fantasy XIII, let me explain what I do here.
I’ve been writing more seriously for the last few months. For the first time in years, I want to not just write, but improve my writing. My work is markedly better now than the first post, longer and more structured.
Note: I’d normally not swear but that’s the name of the language; no point sugar coating it.