This is Part II of the Good Game series. It is actually a direct continuation of part I. If you haven’t read it, please do.
Game design is a complex topic, and one can buy shelves of books on game design theories (I personally own serveral books on game design theory). The thing is, there are [...]

Yesterday I confirmed my hunches empirically: Valve makes good games.
What I did rather extreme: I got a few totally n00b friends to test Portal. And then I got them to test Crysis and Half-Life 2. Out of the 5 test subjects, 4 of them never touched a single computer game in their life (Minesweeper and [...]

A few weeks ago, I told cfgt:
Chewxy says:
I’ll play [Crysis], and give it a trashy review, because I’m very sure the only thing it trumps HL2 is the graphics, not the gameplay, definitely not story.
cfgt says:
well, 98% from PC Gamer is nothing to sneeze at…
Having bought and played Crysis (I bought the Collector’s Edition [...]

I’m in a personal Crysis right now. Look at what I got:

The Crysis Box. But please spot the other subtle product placements like Powerade, and Eclipse mints, as well as Windows Vista and Intel Centrino Duo. Also, please do note Tim Harford’s The Undercover Economist and An Introduction to Game Theory in the background - [...]

I feel old :(. Asides from the fact that I can’t sleep more than 3 hours daily, also, lots of random reminiscing does help in making one feel old.
So, Zybler, cfgt and I were talking about back when in 2001, when we were in the national programming finals in Malaysia. Then somehow the conversation turned [...]