It has taken a while to get this one up, apologies! This is the third and final part of my series of interviews with Russian game developers which all told form my ‘Conversations on Russia’. These conversations led to this piece on The Reticule being written. In this final part I talk to Alexander Scherbakov of Dreamlore Interactive (Stalin vs Martians.)
This is the second part of my series of interviews with various figures involved in the Russian game development scene. In the first part I talked to The LxR of Ice-Pick Lodge. This part is my conversation with Anatoly Subbotin of 1C Company.
Over on The Reticule I recently published an article looking at Russian Games Development which was based on conversations with a bunch of people directly involved in developing games in Russia. Here I will be publishing the conversations that led to the article. First up is Aleksey ‘The LxR’ Luchin from Ice-Pick Lodge.
So it has been quite a while since I last had a roundup of my work here, I think it is about time I did another one, don’t you think?
If you didn’t know already, it is time for another Roundup! Everything is from The Reticule this time, sadly I have stopped writing on Gaming Daily. So what have I been writing in these past two weeks?
Well I have a couple of interviews, the first was with Fredrik Wester the Paradox CEO about, well Paradox! It caused a bit of a stir in the Hearts of Iron community I must say. My second interview was with Michel Gagne and Joe Olson about Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.
Apart from that I reviewed Osmos which is a beautiful little indie game and I also charted my experience of playing Day of Defeat Source again.
That is all this time!
- Chris
A bit late in the day for this, but here is another one of my world famous editions of ‘The Roundup!’ (not actually world famous – Ed) Hit the jump for some pieces of writing I want to bring attention to and a roundup of my own work.
The Roundup is back for another hit of my writings from the past two weeks, and making a welcome return some links to interesting pieces written by other people.
Hit the jump to see what I have in store this week.
I must say I am quite enjoying doing these Roundups, they let me see what work I have done over the past couple of weeks and think ‘ah, I am able to do some productive shit!’
As I mentioned the other day, the main piece to share is my gues post on RPS called China and the Future of Gaming. Heavily inspired by my dissertation, this is a look at the role that gaming plays in China at the moment and what censorship there is on games. Pretty interesting piece for anyone who cares about the industry side of things. Read the comments for debate over usage of Wikipedia!
Over at Gaming Daily I look at The Opening Levels of a Game which pretty much was a chance for me to talk a bit about the awful opening to Drakensang.
Done quite a lot on The Reticule in the past two weeks, more than I thought I had actually! First off I looked at the Experimental Gameplay Project and the first batch of games to come from it here. Expect me to do more like that when the next set of games are released.
I reposted an interview originally done here with Javier Maldonado about Masq. After that I got in touch with Javier again and have learnt some interesting things about the future of Masq, hopefully I can reveal all soon!
An early build of Majesty 2 was played and written about. The game seems interesting, especially for its take on controlling your heroes.
Finally I looked at games on Facebook and I went back to the Omaha landing level from Medal of Honour Allied Assault and wrote about it.
A busy couple of weeks there I must say. Now to get back to watch le Tour de France!
In a change to the usual schedule I bring word of my first article to be published on Rock, Paper, Shotgun. The piece is called China And The Future Of Gaming and is an extension of my dissertation with a focus on games in the most populous country in the world.
This is part of a series of guest articles to appear on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Lewis Denby wrote about Galatea and Phill Cameron should see something published sometime this week.
The Roundup will still be coming this Friday, don’t worry about that!
By the time you read this I will be heading off to my graduation ceremony, the joys of scheduling posts in advance! It has been a busy couple of weeks, I have been working on a secret project so there hasn’t been much time for other writing.
I did my usual column over on Gaming Daily, this time I looked at Evil in Games which led to some interesting debate. I am currently working on a piece looking at the new games from the Experimental Gameplay Project which will be published soon enough on The Reticule.
In other news The_B has joined the staff at The Reticule (and Gaming Daily incidentally) and I must say it is good to have Ben working with us. He is a great writer and has already written some good stuff.
Expect more stuff in the next Roundup.