Before coding a game, you need to develop the concept of the game. Your mind should be clear about it. You need to develop a high level understanding without going into nitty-gritty. In first phase, we find the answer of “What” we want to develop and we leave the answers to “How” for upcoming phases. [...]
As mentioned is a previous blog post that LucasArts is no more, here I would like to discuss the possible reasons behind its failure. We all know that Disney is a game publisher as well, so game development was not a new business for Disney. While Disney winds up LucasArts as a game development studio, its own [...]
A sad news just hit the gaming industry today…LucasArts closed. The official statement from Disney is read as follows: “After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a [...]
I found this funny tweet today, worth sharing with gaming community: Boy: Hey babe I miss you. Girl: Your Xbox broke, didn’t it? Boy: Yep… Author Profile on Google+
March 11 is the date of birth of a famous English writer named Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001). He was a humorist, and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that [...]
EA Sports Challenge Series (FIFA 13, Madden 13, NHL 13) is taking place right now, watch it live. Author Profile on Google+
Virtual Battlespace 2 (VBS2) is a comprehensive open platform with proven capability for training, simulation and development. Next generation gaming technology is adapted to provide collective military and first responder tactical training and mission rehearsal worldwide. Mentioned by Bohemia Interactive Simulations. Recently, British Army used VBS2 to create virtual battlefield to test various variables during [...]
evasi0n – iOS 6.x Jailbreak available for download. I mentioned the details here. Author Profile on Google+
Call of Duty championship is around the corner. Register yourself to hunt your share of a Million dollar prize pool. Event is taking place on April 5th to 7th, 2013 in Hollywood, California. You can participate in online qualifying contest to be there. Top eight teams from each region would be invited to Hollywood to compete [...]
“There are over 1,416,338,245 TVs in the world but less than 1% of them are used to play games! Crazy.” This is the idea behind the GameStick project. I have mentioned GameStick in a blog post comparing it with other handheld devices few weeks earlier when they were still in the process of collecting the funds [...]