What Happened to Edutainment? Mr. Wonderful robbed us all.
Edutainment originally meant educational software for kids. Creators sought to make education fun and take advantage of new technology children already enjoyed using. In the 1990s and early 2000s, edutainment software was huge. Reader Rabbit, Jump Start, Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail – to name a few – were massive franchises of learning software for home […]
Avowed. Dragon Age: Veilguard. Trash? No. Disappointing? Yes.
RPG design expert critiques Dragon Age: Veilguard & Avowed, offering insights beyond “woke” debates and proposing solutions for industry-wide creative stagnation.
What is going on with art design in big games these days? Especially character/armor model design?
I cannot remember there ever being a bigger disconnect between: 1) What a large subset of mass market video game developers/art designers are shoveling down gamers’ throats. and: 2) What gamers are CLEARLY signaling they actually want through: F2P skin and cosmetic purchases popular looks in other forms of media (movies, tv, comics, etc) extremely […]