I haven’t had a lot to talk about in the last month, in part due to having taken on some contract work, and in part due to various distractions, including setting up a company and starting to figure out the necessary accounting and legal technicalities around that. Which isn’t to say that things haven’t been…
I spent some time playing Blizzard’s Hearthstone over the weekend, and came away a little conflicted. First things first: Hearthstone is a digital Free-to-Play collectible card game, in the vein of Magic the Gathering. Visually, it’s one of the most impressively polished video games I’ve ever seen, and the card game itself is very, very…
I’m not going to delve too deeply into what’s been going on in the games industry over the past few weeks. Everything that needed to be said has already been said by people far more erudite than I. Without going into details, let me just say that it’s kind of taken the wind out of…
This is just a few more images from an orthographic view, as discussed in the previous post. It really shows how an orthographic view makes everything look small, like you as the player are looking down from above (because, of course, you are). These images show a group of PCs approaching a quest giver, some…
I’ve been experimenting with using an orthographic view for MMORPG Tycoon 2’s editing interface. Orthographic views were actually extremely common in Tycoon games, up until the late 90s. I’m not yet completely convinced that it’s the right choice for MMORPG Tycoon, but I’m considering it. To me, it feels a little retro. (Note that in…