spent much of the day prepping for a talk to my design colleagues at Microsoft. I’m covering design issues from the two-screens-and-the-cloud approach we used for Full House Poker’s Xbox and Windows Phone 7 versions, which automatically synchronize your gameplay progress across both platforms.
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Fellow ex-Paganista Dennis Detwiller did this great iPhone game at Hothead. It’s fun, challenging, and gorgeous.
Bunny the Zombie Slayer™ for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
Learn more, read reviews, and download Bunny the Zombie Slayer™ by Hothead Games Inc. on the iTunes App Store.
My friend Shane Hensley made this fun strategy game and it’s currently featured on Steam for fifteen bucks. Joe-Bob says check it out!
Help Smilin Jack O'Hurlihan, Esmeralda, and Dr. Theopolis defeat Gruesome George, an army of undead, giant monsters, and the mysterious Red Widow! Featuring nail-biting boss battles, swashbuckling adventure, and a horde of undead buccaneers, Zombie Pirates will send a shiver right down to yer timber
Joystiq writer Karen Bryan picks an MMO to play based on user votes, then does a poll in each column about what major choice she should make next in her gameplay. She’s currently playing my game Pirates of the Burning Sea and having fun with it. In this installment she spends a paragraph just riffing on the Auctioneer’s dialogue, which I wrote and voice-acted. I’m glad to see my silliness found a fan.
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I played Dead Space on iPhone today. It’s like some sort of Potempkin Village of game design, a sort of guided tour of “what you could be playing on a console.” Which doesn’t mean it’s bad; it just has a fundamentally different goal than “be an awesome phone game.”
We’re releasing the PC version of Fable III on our own Games for Windows Marketplace and . . . on Steam. Turns out, we like money.
Gamasutra – News – Fable III Coming To Steam As Well As Games For Windows Marketplace
Microsoft announced today that next month's release of Fable III is now available for pre-order on Valve's Steam digital distribution service as well as Microsoft's own Games for Windows Marketplace.
The FTC has found, once again, that videogame ratings and retailers do a better job of keeping games for grown-ups out of the hands of kids than movies, DVDs, and CDs, and by a wide margin.
Undercover Operation Catches Video Game Retailers Enforcing Ratings
As the Supreme Court considers whether or not selling violent video games to children should be a crime in California, the Federal Trade Commission releases a report showing that game retailers are doing just fine enforcing game ratings without fines and jail time hanging over their heads.
We’ve released our first patch for Full House Poker, fixing lots of bugs, improving matchmaking to get more players at the same table, and other improvements.
There’s a reason why my poker game uses play money.
DOJ indicts founders of top US online poker sites – MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Friday against the founders of the three largest internet poker companies operating in the U.S. The indictment charges eleven defendants, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, with bank fra
“Though the winner of the month, and the winner of the entire House Party, was Full House Poker. The game added 91,181 players in its first week, with over 180,000 for the month, a staggering amount which we haven’t seen since Dead Rising: Case 0.”
Gamasutra – News – In-Depth: Xbox Live Arcade Sales Analysis For March 2011
Ryan Langley examines March 2011's Xbox Live Arcade debuts and continuing successes, with charts and Leaderboard data, for a look at how XBLA titles — from Swarm to Full House Poker — are performing.