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The Self-Driving Carpocalypse
Or: Zombie Car Botnets are Just Around the Corner. This will all start one day when a strange feeling eases into your gut...
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- Jan 7, 2019
- 5 min
The Recipe for a Great Sequel
Think of some of your favorite sequels out there – Uncharted 2 or Portal 2 or Diablo 3. How do they make you feel? Sometimes it can be...
Ray
- Jul 20, 2018
- 8 min
Breaking into Game Design
A few times each year, a friend of a friend will ask for advice about becoming a game designer...
Ray
- Feb 5, 2018
- 5 min
I'll Know I've Made it as a Game Designer When...
I’ll know I’ve made it as a game designer when:
… growing up, I design games that aren’t much fun, but I have a great time doing it...
Ray
- Sep 1, 2015
- 6 min
5 Tips for Writing Great Design Docs
The first problem any designer must overcome is getting their team to want to read a design. The second problem is...
Ray
- May 5, 2013
- 10 min
Designing Character Traits in The Sims 3
In The Sims 3, we made many additions and improvements to the lovable and quirky beings we call Sims. By far, my favorite of those...
Ray
- Nov 10, 2012
- 5 min
Author Interview about The Day Eight Series
I remember learning about an array of approaches to A.I., and thinking, "None of these approaches will ever create real intelligence..."
Ray
- May 5, 2012
- 6 min
Artificial Intelligence is a Lie
We’re so far away from developing any artificial intelligence that is actually… well… intelligent...
Ray
- Mar 25, 2012
- 3 min
Team-Wide Content Creation on The Sims 3
One of the quandaries we had on The Sims 3 was a goal of making a deeper and more interesting game than The Sims 2, with more content to...
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