Comments on: What Game Production Has Taught Me http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/ I bake games. Indie style. Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Juuso - Game Producer http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/comment-page-1/#comment-77194 Juuso - Game Producer Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:32:05 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/#comment-77194 Wazoo & Jake: very good examples! Minimizing travel time was a nice example. So was map reading and 3D space. Anyone else? Wazoo & Jake: very good examples! Minimizing travel time was a nice example. So was map reading and 3D space.

Anyone else?

]]> By: Jake Birkett http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/comment-page-1/#comment-77030 Jake Birkett Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:11:39 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/#comment-77030 map reading skills, and ability to memorise a 3D space and find my way around it have come from playing DOOM and every other helf-decent FPS since. Oh wait, realised this isn't to do with programming. OK programming has taught me to be good with to do lists, self-organisation, discipline and actaully getting stuff finished! map reading skills, and ability to memorise a 3D space and find my way around it have come from playing DOOM and every other helf-decent FPS since. Oh wait, realised this isn’t to do with programming.

OK programming has taught me to be good with to do lists, self-organisation, discipline and actaully getting stuff finished!

]]> By: wazoo http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/comment-page-1/#comment-77009 wazoo Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:25:40 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/#comment-77009 Great examples Juuso! Here's another one that WoW (or any MMO I guess) taught me: how to optimize your schedule to get things done while minimizing travel time. What happens when you hit the town? You pick up 5 or 6 quests from everyone which usually involve traveling far away to the other side of the zone...and then back again to cash them all in. Before you figure out how this works, new players tend to really "waste" time by only grabbing one or two quests, wandering until they hit the target area of the zone, then finding their way back to town, only to discover the other 4 quests involve going right back to the same area! Translate this to everyday tasks such as going to the gym, picking up and/or dropping off the kids at one or more locations, getting the one or two essentials from the grocery store, returning a video from the video store, etc. etc. Great examples Juuso!

Here’s another one that WoW (or any MMO I guess) taught me: how to optimize your schedule to get things done while minimizing travel time.

What happens when you hit the town? You pick up 5 or 6 quests from everyone which usually involve traveling far away to the other side of the zone…and then back again to cash them all in. Before you figure out how this works, new players tend to really “waste” time by only grabbing one or two quests, wandering until they hit the target area of the zone, then finding their way back to town, only to discover the other 4 quests involve going right back to the same area!

Translate this to everyday tasks such as going to the gym, picking up and/or dropping off the kids at one or more locations, getting the one or two essentials from the grocery store, returning a video from the video store, etc. etc.

]]> By: Tuna http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/comment-page-1/#comment-76940 Tuna Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:57:50 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/22/what-game-production-has-taught-me/#comment-76940 I smell the making of another ebook. :) I smell the making of another ebook. :)

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