Mark Venturelli does design at brazilian developer Critical Studio, and is currently working on Dungeonland. You can find more info about the game here: http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/dungeonland
Gamesutra, is basically a tabloid news site.......they report half truths to get hits . r n r nThis was actually a pretty good interview. The opinions represented there were Cliff 's, not Brandon 's. Your vague ill-informed insulting undermines any point you 're trying to make here.
I agree that it 's good design, but it 's ABOUT TIME someone in the dungeon crawler genre knew what they were doing. Calling it something that advances the craft of game design is an overstatement, though. It 's just good design in a genre that never saw anything remotely ...
@Eric: Cooldowns are not a good mechanic in and of themselves, because a cooldown is almost totally non-interactive. r n r nAnd I was arguing that there is no such thing a mechanic good in and of itself . r n r n@Jonathan: To me, I think it 's perfectly ...
Hmmmmm..... r n r nThe article 's start made me feel like hell yeah , with the whole dissing of the clearly idiotic and limited WoW-model of MMOs that dominate the industry and recently culminated with the absurd single player MMO that is SWTOR . r n r nBut then ...
