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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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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...

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Breaking into Game Design

A few times each year, a friend of a friend will ask for advice about becoming a game designer...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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..."

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Artificial Intelligence is a Lie

We’re so far away from developing any artificial intelligence that is actually… well… intelligent...

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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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