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Psychochild's Blog: Weekend Design Challenge: Business influencing design

2008-06-28 23:45:57 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...business and design. How does business influence design Let's see how few posts we can get this week Professional designers rarely get to go off into uncharted territories, even if they get to propose a new project. Corvus over at Man Bytes Blog recently posted, wondering, how money shapes the game industry . I commented that it affects...
 
Tags: business, design, hourly business model, hourly, business model, business affects, business influence design, model, game industry
 
 
 
 
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Psychochild's Blog: Which comes first? The design or the business?

2008-07-01 22:46:00 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...business issues and how they affect game development , let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Let's consider, which comes first: the game design or the business This is an interesting topic, because some designers I've been talking to recently have advocated that some of the higher level business decisions need to be...
 
Tags: game design evolve, game design, game, affect game development, game set, design, game designers, business, puzzle game
 
 
 
 
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Broken Business Models

2008-08-27 06:30:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...business model that is broken, but the fact that neither the monthly fee model nor the free-to-play model create good enough games. Quote: "There is little room for creativity and advancing the state of the art in any of those scenarios - either you are working too fast, have too little budget for your scope, or you dont have the flexibility...
 
Tags: play innovative games, play, free-to-play, free-to-play browser games, free-to-play model, free-to-play games, asian free-to-play games, free, low-budget games
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft takes wait and see approach to XNA business plan

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2008-04-17 18:12:04 by Mike Wehner in That VideoGame Blog
...business plans to turn XNA into a profitable venture, At the moment we havent got business models behind it. Its more about how we take the things that were great at, which is understanding developers, develop the tools, partnering with brilliant people out there in the community - how do we get that creativity pushed towards Xbox 360 and...
 
Tags: business, xna, business models, xna release platform, current business plans, microsoft, unique ideas, local garage developer, money hungry juggernaut
 
 
 
 
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Jennifer MacLean New 38 Studios VP of Business Development

2008-03-21 00:14:47 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
 
...Business Development Jen is a valuable addition to our exceptional team, bringing impeccable credentials, strong relationships, and impressive knowledge of the industry, said Brett Close, CEO and President of 38 Studios. Her extensive industry experience, intersecting product development, media infrastructures, and entertainment properties,...
 
Tags: studios, studios vision, studios press release, jennifer maclean, team, business development, dream team, maclean, strong mmo team
 
 
 
 
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Counting Rupees: The business of politics

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2008-04-01 00:00:00 by Geoffrey Brooks in Joystiq
...Business Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks rendez-vous on Joystiq to contribute Counting Rupees , a column on the business behind gaming The politics of video games are well covered by other websites , but it's worth spending a little time to think about the business implications of politics on the industry and its customers --...
 
Tags: politics, business, games, video games, parents play, politics permalink, play, players, business implications
 
 
 
 
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EA: Online to make up around 60% of Asian business in 5 years

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2008-06-18 00:00:00 by Jason Dobson in Joystiq
...Business After showing considerable interest in conquering Asia, Electronic Arts has been noticeably mum of late regarding its plans for the region, lurking like a rogue in the shadows, as if waiting to club the market on the back of the head with a fat bag of cash . Now EA has admitted as much, with EA Asia's vice president Chris Thompson...
 
Tags: online, business, warhammer online, games online, total business, online portion, market, percent, asia
 
 
 
 
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Ask Massively: Enough business already!

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2008-07-19 10:00:00 by Kevin Stallard in Massively
...business side of MMO gaming, it can be easy to lose track of the real reason that we are all here. Fun! Since I have been up to my eyeballs in the business side of things recently, I thought we'd return to the realm of fun for this week's Ask Massively To the Massive Team I recently wanted to get back into Everquest , mostly for nostalgic...
 
Tags: business, massively, reason, decent levels, levels, real reason, fun, newbie levels, clan crushbone zones
 
 
 
 
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Massively: Ask Massively: Enough business already!

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2008-07-19 11:01:50 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
...business side of MMO gaming, it can be easy to lose track of the real reason that we are all here. Fun! Since I have been up to my eyeballs in the business side of things recently, I thought we'd return to the realm of fun for this week's Ask Massively To the Massive Team I recently wanted to get back into Everquest , mostly for nostalgic...
 
Tags: business, massively, reason, decent levels, levels, real reason, fun, newbie levels, clan crushbone zones
 
 
 
 
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Playing Games-Serious Business

2007-12-06 16:01:00 by YDogg in Mobile Phone Blog