http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress An American Game Designer in Shanghai Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/08/29/skype-home-clickoff/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/08/29/skype-home-clickoff/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:49:53 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1139 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/08/29/skype-home-clickoff/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/07/11/an-end-of-consoles/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/07/11/an-end-of-consoles/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:49:46 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1133 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/07/11/an-end-of-consoles/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/06/14/pitching-to-angel-investors-on-tv/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/06/14/pitching-to-angel-investors-on-tv/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:48:08 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1127 sgEntrepreneurs that our friends over at Vickers Capital Group are involved with a cool new TV program called "The Angel's Gate". The premise is simple: Entrepreneurs are given a chance to pitch their dream to a group of Asia's most successful investors. ]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/06/14/pitching-to-angel-investors-on-tv/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/outerlight-and-indie-development/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/outerlight-and-indie-development/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:10:27 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1105 Just finished reading an excellent interview with independent game developer Outerlight’s co-founder, Chris Peck. It tells the exciting, then sad story of an indie development team struggling to keep their head above water while maintaining their creative core and staying true to the reasons they got into game development to begin with. An excerpt from [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/outerlight-and-indie-development/feed/ 1 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/07/09/first-amendment-and-video-games/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/07/09/first-amendment-and-video-games/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:59:31 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=996 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/07/09/first-amendment-and-video-games/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/07/06/reading-is-slower-on-kindle/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/07/06/reading-is-slower-on-kindle/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:42:48 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=991 Read on CNN this morning that Kindle and iPad reading are slower than reading a normal book. From the article: It takes longer to read books on a Kindle 2 or an iPad versus a printed book, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered in a recent usability survey. The study found [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/07/06/reading-is-slower-on-kindle/feed/ 1 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/28/kinect-destined-to-fail/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/28/kinect-destined-to-fail/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:01:43 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=984 wrong places - constrain how developers and consumers interface with the platform (as Nintendo did) by releasing a console with motion control as the ONLY input option. The creates a demand for original ideas and innovation to solve the most basic problem of getting known-genres to work on new hardware. ]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/28/kinect-destined-to-fail/feed/ 5 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/used-games-end-of-gaming-industry/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/used-games-end-of-gaming-industry/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:11:46 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=980 reports indicate used game sales are cutting into new game sales. Publishers and developers feel the pinch. Consumers and retailers don't see the problem. The economy gets some punching bag action. And finally, it's suggested the "model" might be changing - moving towards more DLC and online content. ]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/used-games-end-of-gaming-industry/feed/ 6 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/22/extra-lives/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/22/extra-lives/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:18:42 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=966 Extra Lives From a recent book review at The New York Times: If photographs are “experience captured,” in Susan Sontag’s phrase, then video games are experience created. The medium can be so engaging, so addictive — Bissell compares playing games to his time using cocaine — that many game makers get away with fiction that [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/22/extra-lives/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/14/giving-up-is-how-you-win/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/14/giving-up-is-how-you-win/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:43:46 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=960 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/14/giving-up-is-how-you-win/feed/ 0