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.
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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 […]

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 […]

A package arrived this weekend full of John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat movies. It’s never too late to get a good idea from somewhere. So many times I’ve re-watched one of these films and thought, “Man, how did I miss that? We absolutely have to get that into the game!”
Also tucked into […]

I’m heading out to San Jose tomorrow for GDC. But before I leave I wanted to let y’all know about two talks being given by members of the Stranglehold creative team, both this Thursday. First Chip Sineni and Vince Proce will be presenting “Next-Generation of Character Concept Art: Creating Photo-Real People Who Don’t […]

First off, you may have noticed that there was an avalanche of traffic for Snow Day, thanks in large part to a post on a little-known website called Slashdot. I must have hit a chord with that one.
Secondly, the new Stranglehold media has started to show up online. I think IGN was first […]