I recently found a really sweet video that contains some good tips on making games. 2D Boy (guys behind World of Goo) posted this video few months ago in their blog. In case you haven’t checked it out yet, I recommend you do that now (or bookmark the video for later watching). Some really good stuff packed in 7 and a half minutes video.
tonic: "well… applying the same logic, why would you consider X360 since it doesn’t play old XBOX games? and yeah, first model of PS3 had extra HW to..." 3 hours 3 minutes ago. 
Juuso: "Russell: it’s the amount of junk in me house I dislike… I don’t like the idea of owning seven thousand different consoles connected to a tv. :)" 7 hours 52 minutes ago. Juuso: "Jake: what about stealth/assassinations - are they interesting as in Thief (=cool) or interesting as in Assassins Creed I (=pretty okay)?" 7 hours 54 minutes ago. 
Jake Birkett: "Shame. The PS2 played PS1 games but they looked funny. Can anyone 100% confirm if the PS3 games are really region free? If so I might buy one in Canada..." 11 hours 2 minutes ago. Jake Birkett: "@Juuso: Yes, it’s very good. I’m impressed. It has great graphics and a great atmosphere of 15th Century Italy (I actually feel like..." 11 hours 4 minutes ago. 
GamingHorror: "Besides the already mentioned points, backwards compatibility seems not to be a big issue. It’s definetely not a system seller." 14 hours 51 minutes ago. 
Lumooja: "It’s production costs. The old PS3 had a chip which could run PS2 games, so it didn’t need to emulate them. It also had bigger harddrive, more USB..." 16 hours 42 minutes ago. 
mikeful: "Original model supported PS2 games. For some reason backwards compatibility was dropped from newer models. PS1 games are software emulated on all models...." 17 hours 37 minutes ago. 
Russell: "Actually, I believe that the first-generation PS3s did support PS2 games, but are only compatible with 92%-98% of them. You can check which models are..." 19 hours 5 minutes ago. 
April 14th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I seriously need to update my layout :)
April 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
This was good advice when we were at the Global Game Jam.
But unfortunately it wasnt´t very easy to follow every point, specially the “adjust your expectative” and “don´t fall in love” ones, these seems very clear when planning and get very tricky when in development.
I encourage everybody to take part in events like this whether your are profesional or amateur. It´s pefect to live a complete cycle and to experiment production methodologies (like some form of mutilated scrum we used).
April 14th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Too bad 90% of the events happen like other end of the world (and not here in Finland), although I also agree that attending to events like this is a really good idea: you can make contacts and get perspective on game making. Perspective you don’t find just staring at your computer screen… :)