At Game Developers Conference (GDC) Online in Austin, TX, I spent the majority of the first day listening to the writers of Blizzard talk about their process for developing narrative for their franchises. Their day-long group of talks was named, “The War of Worldcraft: Developing Franchise Narrative in the Transmedia Age”. Transmedia is a fancy […]
Kabam, an online game developer, is bringing The Godfather to Facebook with their newest browser-based game, The Godfather: Five Families. They’re currently testing their beta and inviting select users, who sign up on their website, to play. I signed up, got access to the beta several days ago, and quickly began the arduous journey into […]
With Flatter World, Inc.’s release of their new Flat Stanley iPhone app, the story of Flat Stanley has finally made its way into the 21st century. Yes, that’s right. Our beloved Stanley Lambchop has been digitized into the worldwide mainframe. Let’s first take a whirl back in time. The original Flat Stanley was a children’s […]
If you haven’t noticed, Twitter’s a big deal. As a result, Twitter news is a big deal. So, when Twitter co-founders, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, publicly release their support for a new venture, people generally pay attention. Under the umbrella of the The Obvious Corporation, Stone and Williams released this vague statement to announce […]
If you listen closely, you can hear real game designers all around the world laughing in Zynga’s face. Zynga, the Vanilla Ice of the gaming industry, was hit by yet another patent suit last Wednesday. According to a press release by Agincourt Gaming, “Agincourt, a recent entrant into the social gaming space, owns foundational patents […]
