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/2011/12/15/best-art-direction-for-alice-madness-returns/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/12/15/best-art-direction-for-alice-madness-returns/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:34:19 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1169 MSNBC Tech has awarded Alice: Madness Returns a "Best Art Direction" award for 2011. Alice had some serious competition for the honor, going up against some of the year's biggest and most beautiful games.]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/12/15/best-art-direction-for-alice-madness-returns/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/bigger-budgets-more-quality/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/bigger-budgets-more-quality/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:49:52 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1085 Read on gi.biz today of an interview with Romuald Capron, COO at Arkane Studios of his views on budgets and team size as they relate to the creation of quality games. He says of smaller teams and outsourcing, “I think that’s a good way to maintain reasonable budgets, and I think a lot of companies [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/bigger-budgets-more-quality/feed/ 1 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/09/20/ebox-a-console-for-china/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/09/20/ebox-a-console-for-china/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:45:47 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1062 Lots of news these days about Lenovo's announcement of the "Ebox" - a game console built in and for China (as well as the rest of Asia).]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/09/20/ebox-a-console-for-china/feed/ 1 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/09/peasant-da-vincis-at-shanghai-rockbund/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/09/peasant-da-vincis-at-shanghai-rockbund/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:16:29 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=946 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/09/peasant-da-vincis-at-shanghai-rockbund/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/08/wind-power-to-blow-strongly/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/08/wind-power-to-blow-strongly/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:23:16 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=943 From Shanghai Daily: Wind power to blow strongly CHINA is expected to increase its total offshore wind-power capacity from 5,000 megawatts in 2015 to 30,000MW by 2020, a senior official at a hydropower institute said. “Shanghai as well as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian provinces have already submitted their offshore wind-power blueprints. Their combined off-shore [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/06/08/wind-power-to-blow-strongly/feed/ 2 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/01/23/off-the-map-in-china/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/01/23/off-the-map-in-china/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:31:53 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=847 Off the Map in China Gamasutra has posted an interview by Christian Nutt with your truly. It begins with… Famous for his work with id Software and on EA-published cult classic Alice, American McGee set up shop in Shanghai, China, in 2007 with his new studio, Spicy Horse. Though the company’s first game, Grimm, for [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/01/23/off-the-map-in-china/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/793/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/793/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:32:40 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=793 Ancient Chinese Beauty I really enjoyed this article over on LA Times regarding Chinese vs. Western views of the world. The issue here is much deeper than Western-style democracy, a free media or human rights. China is simply not like the West and never will be. There has been an underlying assumption that the process [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/24/793/feed/ 1 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/adrenaline-vault-interview/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/adrenaline-vault-interview/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:14:14 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=788 PRC Flag I’m featured in a podcast interview over at Adrenaline Vault – some details provided over at their site: Episode 56’s guest is American McGee from Spicy Horse. American dropped what he was doing in China to chat about his history in the industry, and provided some interesting insight into where he’s been and [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/11/21/adrenaline-vault-interview/feed/ 0 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/shanghai-is-awesome/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/shanghai-is-awesome/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:15:18 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=775 Shanghai is Awsome Since starting the Alice 2 project things have been pretty quiet around here – mostly because it’s not possible to reveal many of the things going on with the development. I can say it’s coming along nicely and everyone involved is happy and healthy. Meanwhile, life in Shanghai continues… Since moving here [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/10/18/shanghai-is-awesome/feed/ 2 http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/08/17/foreign-games-in-china/ http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/08/17/foreign-games-in-china/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:18:44 +0000 American http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=759 Great article over on the Escapist by Greg Pilarowski covering the topic of foreign game companies trying to do business in China. Greg focuses his attention on the recent Blizzard/WoW fiasco and provides some insight into the tangled mess that is Chinese law. Read it here. Greg is Spicy Horse’s (excellent) legal counsel in Shanghai [...]]]> http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2009/08/17/foreign-games-in-china/feed/ 0