Sep

Soren Johnson offers some scrumptious little tidbits to all of your aspiring designers looking to break into the Games Industry.  If you are feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to start then do yourself a favor and take a listen to some tips from a man who has climbed the ladder and is designing some of the best games to hit the shelves over the past couple of years!

Title: “How to become a Game Designer” – Original Article

Written by: Soren Johnson (www.designer-notes.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on Sept 3rd, 2009

Apr

Soren Johnson takes a look at the emerging dominant model for online games coming out of Asian, that being the Free To Play model.  More importantly he looks at how this is going to change the role of the game designer as fun is no longer the sole priority in his or her design, but how do you make a game fun while milking as much money out of your customer as possible

Title: “Designing for Free‘ – Original Article

Written by: Soren Johnson (www.designer-notes.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on April 6th, 2009

Feb

Soren Johnson writes about the fascinating economic situation within games and how Designers can start looking more closely at this mostly over-looked mechanic in games as a way of avoiding past pitfalls and adding a much greater depth to their products

Title: “Game Economics‘ – Original Article

Written by: Soren Johnson (www.designer-notes.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on February 11th, 2009

Dec

In today’s article, writen by Soren Johnson, we go into the issue of 2D vs 3D graphics styles in today’s games, more specifically where they are best suited, their strengths and their weaknesses lie.

Title: “2D vs 3D‘ – Original Article

Written by: Soren Johnson (www.designer-notes.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on December 28th, 2008

Nov

It is with pride that we bring you the first in what we hope will be many articles by the illustrious Soren Johnson.  The first ’7 Deadly Sins of Strategy Games’ goes through common and ‘deadly’ mistakes that Stategy games designs continue to fall prey to, what risks they pose and why you should avoid them.

Title: ‘7 Deadly Sins of Strategy Game‘

Written by: Soren Johnson (www.designer-notes.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on November 27th, 2008