Comments on: Don’t Be a Game Addict

By: Rui Ferreira

Rui Ferreira — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:18:05 +0000

This posting from Scott Miller is quite insightful into the derailing of Duke Nukem Forever…. Even more interesting is to see his tweeter stream and the late night poker plays.

And I’m not implying anything.

By: GameProducer.Net » Blog Archive » 7 Ways to Get Ideas

GameProducer.Net » Blog Archive » 7 Ways to Get Ideas — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:40:35 +0000

[...] [2] Play games Playing several different kind of games is an excellent way to get ideas. Whether it’s health systems, user interface, animations or anything – you can always find nice designs in games. Just make sure you don’t get too addicted into playing. [...]

By: kibousha

kibousha — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:47:19 +0000

I agree with the idea. The key is to know when to stop playing & stop. I usually schedule myself for my play time. During non-crunch time, 1~2 hours / day and a bit longer during weekends. When playing MMO, I don’t chase level, I decided what I want to do during a session (may it be quest or other things) complete it and call it a day.

By: Game Producer

Game Producer — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:34:19 +0000

@DannyB: online element? Then proceed here...

By: DannyB

DannyB — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:01:16 +0000

@Casey: I get bored with most games I play, unless there is an online element in them. My farovire genre (as of now) is the MMO simply for the fact that I don’t feel like I’m secluding myself from the world.

“Casual games”, on the other hand, I prefer to play alone. Games like Bejeweled and Tetris are very fun while playing alone. I don’t feel like I am so immersed (sp) in the game that I’m losing part of my life – yet they would be even more fun (Dr Mario) if you could play with a friend.

By: CaseyD

CaseyD — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:14:47 +0000

I have been collecting games since I was around eight years old. I have always been a somewhat hardcore gamer but I have over the last couple of years moved away from the hardcore and just more of a gamer. I think my time at Gamestop killed off a part of me I haven’t quite reclaimed. Anyways, when I play games I usually make a mental note on differnet aspects of the game. I ask myself questions like, “What about this game is unique?”, or “What aspect of this game would I do differently?”. I am not sure if I am alone in this, but I have found the vast majority of recent games incredibly boring and this helps to get something out of the experience that I might be able to use later on.

By: Game Producer

Game Producer — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:51:43 +0000

Heh, you sound just like one friend of mine :)

By: DannyB

DannyB — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:38:57 +0000

WoW is definatly a black whole. If I ever get tired of one of my toons, I simply start a new class/race/server. I’ve tried to keep it down to 1 to 2 characters (sucessfuly for a few weeks now WOOT!)

I’m still in the beginning phases of game programming. I have other time consuming issues that make playing games even less of a “good time investment.” But like someone said above, you HAVE to play them to nurture your own ideas.

Life in general is about balance – one that I’m having trouble mastering (damn you WOW!!!)

By: Kal_Torak

Kal_Torak — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:16:03 +0000

As a sort of hobby, I collect games, mostly freeware/shareware off the ‘net.
Since starting game dev, I’ve been realizing more and more how useful those will be for getting ideas from. I’ve seen some great ones and some lousy ones, though few are *really* good. I have over 1000 games installed right now and a couple hundred yet to test and sort into genre.

If anyone needs info for a particular kind of game I’d be interesting collaborating…
kaltorak2(at)hotmail(dot)com is my email and MSN.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:46:59 +0000

Very good advice. I think World of Warcraft especially has hooked way too many of us… I can’t bring myself to cancel my account… But… I think I should… maybe tomorrow.

The best thing I started doing was to check out other types of games that I don’t usually enjoy, especially games by indie developers. Just playing WoW and nothing else didn’t inspire too many new game ideas. All my ideas tended to somehow be like an aspect of WoW.

Darwinia was an amazing find and made me question my own game ideas. “N” is another interesting concept, even though I didn’t enjoy it. I guess we should play more games, but play less often.