Tag Archives: theory

What’s in a Game? part I

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Dave

I’ve been thinking about various ways of categorizing types of games or perhaps more specifically, types of game play within games. Exploration — Most RPGs feature exploration as a significant part of the game play although it is more important … Continue reading →

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How Fast is Fast Enough?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dave

Something I was thinking on the way home: in real-time procedural world generation how fast do we have to be able to create the world in real-time? In a procedural and semi-infinite world like MineCraft the game only generates and … Continue reading →

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