Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Steve Dunn" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Game design diary?? Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 00:22:23 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 47 Message-ID: <6io741$jpr32@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <6io2ku$6r1@scea> NNTP-Posting-Host: userk481.uk.uudial.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 A game design diary would be great. In fact in Zzap! 64 (many years ago) they always had a diary from some programmer or another. It's a shame nowadays, there aren't many 'known faces', like the old; Jeff Minter, Orlando, Andew Braybrook, etc. Steve >I really like the idea of a magazine style game design diary. Great idea. >Now, how long will it take for someone to take action though? > >Are there any others out there that would like/benefit from this style of >web site? > >Post here and let them know. > > >Steve Tolin > >wrote in message ... >>I think you need a real/fictional website editor we can talk to. Maybe they >>could be a rad japanese game designer with a rad name like 'Sosumi >>Motospazi' but then again you probably have better ideas. What would be >>great would be if the website turned into more of a games designing >>magazine, with articles like Edge but with more code and less pathetic >macho >>posturing. Maybe you could persuade one of your ultra-enthusiastic team >>leaders at SCEE to write a fortnightly game diary so we can follow the >games >>designing process on a real game ("look, just don't mention GTE >>instructions"). You might even commission some down-at-heel drunken hack to >>do some interviews on game mechanics. I'm sure it wouldnt cost that much >>compared to a days tech support engineer time. >> >>An official 'free stuff for Yaroze kids' page might be nice, I'm sure we >can >>send you lots of share/freeware links to fill it cos at the moment that >info >>is scattered in a thousand corners. >> >>Anyway thats what I came up with in the shower this morning. C'mon 500 >>people post your great ideas here. >> >> > >