Katherine Cross "There’s much, much more to sex than the occasional butt shot. Sex isn’t static; it’s life itself; it’s part of your personality; it’s expressive and vibrant. Miranda’s butt shots (and most of the casual titillation throughout Mass Effect, actually) are dishwater-dull, however."
Chris Kerr "The strange and wonderful thing about Outer Wilds is its singular hook: the quest for knowledge."
Bryant Francis "In one chilling example from Frostpunk’s development, [former Frostpunk game designer Marta] Fijak showed how designers trying to solve balancing problems might stumble into expressing certain worldviews, whether they intend to or not."
Chris Kerr "Naughty Dog knew from minute one there was going to be a guitar in the game and that Ellie was going to play it. That begged the question: ‘could they put it on the stick?"
Chris Kerr "Taking to the virtual stage at GDC 2021 to outline how wind works in Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch coder Bill Rockenbeck explained the techniques used veer more into the realm of heuristics and hacks that allowed the dev team to blow millions of vents using only a small fraction of the PS4's computational capacity. " |