I was supposed to dismiss Plants vs Zombies entirely but by the time I stopped, it was too late. This game, as cliche as it sounds, just wouldn't let me go. Crazy stuff.



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E3 rants

I don't know why Nintendo even bothered to announce the Wii Vitality Sensor or whatever they wanna call it. Without solid games/ideas, even! Now, unless every heartbeat detected by this cheap-looking peripheral can charge up the remote's batteries or something, I'm gonna fall for Nintendo's Buy N' Large philosophy.

As for Sony, I'm still wondering why they demoed their motion control prototype in E3. Without a name. Shouldn't this technology more appropriate in, say, GDC? I remember it was in GDC where they demoed their far more innovative tech where you draw stuff and the PS3 will convert them to actual game objects--now that's awesome. Too bad they're obsessed with Nintendo's money-making scheme to even notice.

And Microsoft, as much as I love your Natal concept, driving a car with your hands floating in midair without holding anything is stupider than holding a white, plastic peripheral in midair.

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Woot

Anyway, I just want to give a shout out to our game design team for 'winning' those game design challenges by Game Career Guide. It's not a sign that we're great designers, I admit, but at least our ideas are beginning to get noticed--for a couple of weeks or so. I proposed the idea of joining these challenges to my team weeks ago just so we can stretch our legs a bit; since majority of our projects are ports of other games, the team has barely enough room to actually design stuff. Hopefully by the time we as a company are strong enough (financially) to take on original properties, the brains behind the game won't be as jaded as before. Game designers are restless creatures, always testing the waters whether people like it or not.

you can view our chosen entries here:

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/748/results_from_game_design_.php
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/734/results_from_game_design_.php
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/728/results_from_game_design_.php

I've decided not to specify which of Top 3 are our design, though, since we're using our real names for this. Sorry. :-)