Comments on: Childhood Memories and Videogames http://www.satori.org/2010/01/childhood-memories-and-videogames/ Mark DeLoura's happy place. On games technology and other things. Mon, 10 May 2010 00:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Todd M. Fay http://www.satori.org/2010/01/childhood-memories-and-videogames/comment-page-1/#comment-913 Todd M. Fay Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:49:13 +0000 http://www.satori.org/?p=837#comment-913 Hey Mark, I'm glad you wrote this post. I moved back home to Chelsea, MA about five years ago after a stint in California. Even after only a short period away the place gentrified enough for me to notice small, but odd changes. It's like living in the uncanny valley ;-). I too have been reliving my childhood through video games. It's pretty useful to look back at those immersive, emotional experiences and use them as anchor points for accessing neighboring memories. Hope you are well! Hey Mark,

I’m glad you wrote this post. I moved back home to Chelsea, MA about five years ago after a stint in California. Even after only a short period away the place gentrified enough for me to notice small, but odd changes. It’s like living in the uncanny valley ;-) .

I too have been reliving my childhood through video games. It’s pretty useful to look back at those immersive, emotional experiences and use them as anchor points for accessing neighboring memories.

Hope you are well!

]]> By: Videogames on a cusp, opportunity knocks! | Stephen Peacock http://www.satori.org/2010/01/childhood-memories-and-videogames/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Videogames on a cusp, opportunity knocks! | Stephen Peacock Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:42:16 +0000 http://www.satori.org/?p=837#comment-824 [...] Mark DeLoura recently commented on his blog Videogames are on a cusp, turning from a technology focus to a design focus. For the industry, this is likely a good thing. But it will attract different minds. What will the game industry of the future look like? via Satori » Childhood Memories and Videogames [...] [...] Mark DeLoura recently commented on his blog Videogames are on a cusp, turning from a technology focus to a design focus. For the industry, this is likely a good thing. But it will attract different minds. What will the game industry of the future look like? via Satori » Childhood Memories and Videogames [...]

]]> By: Pez http://www.satori.org/2010/01/childhood-memories-and-videogames/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Pez Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:07:45 +0000 http://www.satori.org/?p=837#comment-810 Yes, what indeed will the next generation kids be in to? Related: Where are the kids of today heading? For better or worse, it's probably the mobile platforms like iPhone/iPad and Android (plus to a lesser degree, Moblin, etc.) Maybe it's best that they aren't constrained by concerns over vertex shaders and character rigging. Tomorrow's high school solo game developer isn't likely to spend time deciding between C4 and Unity but instead just crank-out an iPhoneOS app in ObjC (or embeddable common lisp). Just as the Commodore64 kids didn't perceive limitations from lack of RAM back in the day, I'm hopeful that we'll see far more of that spirit re-emerge on the iPad and its competitors. Then-- as you mused from the PAX panel a few years ago-- the game industry will grow in strange and beautiful ways through an infusion of ideas from people who didn't know it couldn't be done. Yes, what indeed will the next generation kids be in to?

Related: Where are the kids of today heading? For better or worse, it’s probably the mobile platforms like iPhone/iPad and Android (plus to a lesser degree, Moblin, etc.)

Maybe it’s best that they aren’t constrained by concerns over vertex shaders and character rigging. Tomorrow’s high school solo game developer isn’t likely to spend time deciding between C4 and Unity but instead just crank-out an iPhoneOS app in ObjC (or embeddable common lisp).

Just as the Commodore64 kids didn’t perceive limitations from lack of RAM back in the day, I’m hopeful that we’ll see far more of that spirit re-emerge on the iPad and its competitors.

Then– as you mused from the PAX panel a few years ago– the game industry will grow in strange and beautiful ways through an infusion of ideas from people who didn’t know it couldn’t be done.

]]> By: Ozymandias http://www.satori.org/2010/01/childhood-memories-and-videogames/comment-page-1/#comment-805 Ozymandias Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:22:52 +0000 http://www.satori.org/?p=837#comment-805 One day I will visit and find a new post here. Guilt, guilt. ;) One day I will visit and find a new post here. Guilt, guilt.

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]]> By: Sean Barrett http://www.satori.org/2010/01/childhood-memories-and-videogames/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Sean Barrett Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:17:25 +0000 http://www.satori.org/?p=837#comment-798 Ah, Crazy Climber, I used to play that a lot at the bowling alley down the street from my house... "the cutting edge games are big-budget blockbusters that I may have felt demoralized trying to create on my own" Actually I kind of went through that 20 years ago! I grew up with Infocom games and thinking "yeah, I want to make these". Then Infocom stopped being Infocom in 1986 just after I graduated high school and by the time I finished with college in 1992 it was clear that one person couldn't make a game by themselves anymore, so I'd given up on the idea of making games professionally, and I went off to do other things. The other things collapsed pretty fast and I ended up in the industry in 1994, but all through college I basically took for granted that it was no longer for me, but I didn't see anything else interesting either. Ah, Crazy Climber, I used to play that a lot at the bowling alley down the street from my house…

“the cutting edge games are big-budget blockbusters that I may have felt demoralized trying to create on my own”

Actually I kind of went through that 20 years ago!

I grew up with Infocom games and thinking “yeah, I want to make these”. Then Infocom stopped being Infocom in 1986 just after I graduated high school and by the time I finished with college in 1992 it was clear that one person couldn’t make a game by themselves anymore, so I’d given up on the idea of making games professionally, and I went off to do other things. The other things collapsed pretty fast and I ended up in the industry in 1994, but all through college I basically took for granted that it was no longer for me, but I didn’t see anything else interesting either.

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