The Sunday Papers

Sundays call for running taxi duty for relatives visiting from overseas. I've had early morning Gatwick runs in tandem with Sunday Papers posts numerous times, and it's odd that I'm being paid in USD while residing in the United Kingdom. Today, I share some international writings. In an interview with Artemis Octavio, multimedia artist Jeremy Couillard discussed his indie experiments like Soul Injector Commando, an FPS where players shoot a sense of humanity into enemies based on real-life billionaires.

I learned a lot about the billionaires' names, which appear in the upper corner as they are "injected" into the game. Many of these individuals are either arrested, dead, or facing indictment charges. A recent discussion on gamedev team sizes, sparked by a GI.biz post about Star Wars: Galactic Racer, was a rehash of a previous article.

However, Bryant Francis penned a thoughtful piece on the need for a new language approach to fit recent developments in outsourcing. When done right, outsourcing diversifies financial risk and preserves what works about triple-A development. In the article "When Games Fail," writer and former Double Fine Harper Jay considers the intent and aspirations of games, rather than sales and Steam player counts.

Manhunt's investment in stealth simulation was significant for its time, despite the snuff director conceit. In Eurogamer's feature, Robert Purchese meets the creator of a Game Boy museum housed in a cartridge. However, cramming the museum onto the device proved challenging due to the Game Boy's limited screen space. Lastly, I learned about the eccentric American moneyman Timothy Dexter, whose punctuation sheet supplement provided an interesting glimpse into his life and work.