Right now seems to be as good a time as any to talk about the state of the economy and its effect on filmmaking. I’ve heard it all from both sides of the fence now, both good and bad.
The big debate though is traditional media vs. downloads-only. Why not offer ISOs of the discs or an optional “Buy the CD/DVD” for a few bucks on-demand? It’s true that your average user wouldn’t know an ISO image from a Word document, but most gamers are a little bit above average at least.
Hard to believe I started this blog almost 2 years ago and have only made 70 posts, with this one being the 70th. It’s not a nice, round number like 100 that rolls off the tongue, but I’ll take it.
There has been a general fear as of late that PC gaming is dying a slow and painful death to…
I’ve always been a big supporter of independent games. After all, one could consider my own lowly self to be a one-man indie game developer.
As with the music and movie industries before it, now the “publishing” world is jumping on the bandwagon and trying to control even more with outrageous claims.
What a lot of people don’t know is that your editor, if they are good at what they do, also have a tight timeline to complete a book’s edits before moving directly onto the next one. They can be constantly busy, as was the case with my editor. So my own short time window is rapidly closing in. It’s this Sunday. If I don’t get all of the edits completed, I’ll end up at the back of the queue, which means the book will be delayed.
When the Kindle 1 reader came out from Amazon, I thought it was a step in the right direction for e-book readers. Its somewhat limited capacities and features left me wanting more. Then the Kindle 2 came out. And the Author’s Guild is up in arms about it. But not anyone else it seems.
The gaming industry, for what it is now, is something I don’t think I could be a part of. It…
