Month: April 2008

The joy of 2D avatars

April 13, 2008
by Daniel Cook
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I’ve been looking at 2D avatars lately. It’s been a fascinating trip into a wierd little area of game art that I haven’t dabbled in before. Like quite a bit of game art, there is a very obvious craft involved in the creation of 2D avatars. It reminds me a lot of the techniques that went into old school pixel art or tile creation. You build your pieces just so according to a very particular […]

A Services Strategy for Casual Games

April 9, 2008
by Daniel Cook
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Gamasutra posted up an article that has been bouncing around in my documents folder for a little while. The original title was “A Services Strategy for Casual Games”, but the new one is a bit more punchy. One response that I’ve heard quite a bit is that portals will never allow user data to be released back to developers. This is quite true for most established portals that have traditionally focused on selling packaged goods […]