Patrick Curry’s Thoughts on Game Design

Well we’ve all arrived safe and sound in Las Vegas! After checking in we spent the day gearing up for the big press conference tomorrow. It’s pretty sweet to see Stranglehold rocking the big screens at the venue… especially since we’ve been staring at the LCDs in our office for so long.
But before we give […]

2006 was a strange year for me and gaming. I spent a good deal of my free time last year writing, so I didn’t play quite as many games as I did in 2005 (at least not as deeply). And with the advent of downloadable demos on the 360, I had lots of […]

Half the fun of being a game designer is getting to name your little creations. It’s amazing what you can get away with when your main character is named Tequila. As you probably know, Chow Yun Fat’s character in Stranglehold is the cop from Hard Boiled. His real name is Inspector Yuen, but everyone just […]

The other day Patrick Moran and I were talking about licensed games… It occurred to me that the ultimate game license had to be Oprah Winfrey. Oprah’s conquered all other media, why not games? Oprah’s huge fanbase alone is a great reason to make a game with or about her! […]

Wow. It’s been ten whole days and not a single new game idea. It’s been a refreshing and somewhat confusing ten days. What will I do with all this spare time now that I’m not racking my brain trying to pull rabbits out of a hat? Well, I have a few […]

Happy New Year, everyone! 2007 finds me one year older and 52 game ideas lighter. A few months into the challenge I realized that coming up with a new game idea every week was both the smartest thing I’d ever done, and the most insane thing I’d ever done. The experience was […]