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The creator of Pac-Man explains something I never really understood:

“The four ghosts all occupy different positions on screen. The red ghost is the aggressor, chasing directly after Pac-Man. The pink one is positioned at a point 32 pixels in front, the blue symmetrical to Pac-Man, and the orange entirely random.”

Genius.

GDC 2011: Classic Game Postmortem – Pac-Man | Edge Magazine

Taro Iwatani on how stinky arcades and spousal gluttony inspired the most successful coin-op of all time. pac-man_gdc2011.JPGTaro Iwatani on how stinky arcades and spousal gluttony inspired the most successful coin-op of all time. With this

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is on sale this week for $5 instead of $10. If you’re on Xbox, you really should get this game. It came out a couple of months ago and blew me away with its creativity. I get inspired when I see people innovating brilliantly within a very tight set of constraints such as Pac-Man.

You can buy it for five bucks from this link and it’ll download to your Xbox next time you turn it on.

PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX – Xbox.com

Pac-Man Championship Edition has been powered up!! Three years ago, Pac-Man Championship Edition was released and took the world by storm, 27 years after the original Pac-Man's debut. Now, for the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, this classic game has been powered-up! Everything has been upgraded! New v

My new game, Full House Poker, launches in a couple of weeks on Xbox LIVE Arcade. We’ll be posting screenshots and other sweetmeats to the game’s new Facebook page. Try it. You might Like it!

Full House Poker

Bet your way to fame playing Texas Hold 'Em anytime, anywhere! Compete against your friends and thousands of players worldwide. Play a quick two-player game for some lightning action, join a big 30-player tournament, or play a round of Texas Heat, our live poker game show where you'll have 30 minute…

Raph Koster’s presentation from GDC yesterday on 40 game mechanics suitable for social games. It’s a great deck, bursting with interesting ideas and insights.

http://www.raphkoster.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Koster_Social_Social-mechanics_GDC2011.pdf

For the third year, a non-profit is sponsoring a game design challenge: create a Flash game about teen dating violence without showing violence in the game. The two previous winners are playable from the link above.

Make a Game, Help Stop Teen Dating Violence

Can you create a game about teen dating violence without using violence?

My team needs an art director to oversee multiple Xbox games for a family audience. Know one? Are one? Check the job description for more details and let me know.

Microsoft.com – Careers

In order to apply for this job, you need to create a resume/CV. By selecting Create Resume/CV, you will be given the option to either build your resume/CV field by field or to copy and paste your resume/CV into one text field. You can save an incomplete resume at any point.

PopCap’s new Bejeweled Blitz game launches on Xbox LIVE Arcade today, developed by my friends at Torpex Games. This trailer is surprisingly funny and definitely worth a quick watch. I’m glad they can have a sense of humor about Bejeweled.

(h/t Bill Dugan)

is thinking this morning that if Sony hadn’t so badly bungled the PS3 launch (in terms of retail price), even Xbox might be selling more today. They had such a huge audience with the PS2 who didn’t jump to either PS3 or Xbox. We lost them to the Wii, DS, and the web. Sony really screwed the pooch for us all.

I stayed up too late last night checking out some of the Indie Games titles on Xbox. My favorite of the ones I tried was radiangames JoyJoy, a thrilling and beautiful evolution of the twin-stick shooter. It’s innovating within a narrow slice of game design but doing so brilliantly. Crazy fun and very creative. Also, only one dollar. Please buy it at the link above and it’ll download to your Xbox.

radiangames JoyJoy – Xbox.com

This game was classified by the community with the following category scores – Violence=1/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. Experience the fluid and intensely satisfying action of radiangames JoyJoy, the happy twin-stick shooter. This is the first game in the radiangames series. radiangames JoyJoy w

Here’s the teaser trailer for my poker game.