What it Takes to Make Game Development a Career

What it Takes to Make Game Development a Career

Rami Ismail, co-head of Vlambeer Games (Serious Sam: The Random Encounter) tells prospective game developers the secret to making it in the super competitive gaming industry: "A great way to not make money is to make something you don't believe in. Make your game. Be confident."
Creating Color for the Colorblind: Dr. Don McPherson

Creating Color for the Colorblind: Dr. Don McPherson

Dr. Don McPherson is the co-founder of EnChroma, a company responsible for possibly the most groundbreaking technology in the field of color deficient vision. What was once considered to be moderately treatable with lenses that only work outdoors has now been refined with the invention of technology that...
Satoru Iwata Describes Gaming

Satoru Iwata Describes Gaming

In 2006, The late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata stood on stage at the Game Developer's Conference San Francisco and talked exclusively about what makes games fun. During his closing remarks, he told a captive audience the most spot-on summary of his company's vision. "At Nintendo, we do not...
Raph Koster on the Value of Video Games

Raph Koster on the Value of Video Games

Game designer and author Raph Koster has worked on many classic titles including Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest 2 and wrote the critically-acclaimed novel "A Theory of Fun for Game Design," a book covering game design and how games should be treated as "Edutainment". Raph believes games can be...
President Ronald Reagan Talks Video Games

President Ronald Reagan Talks Video Games

"I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets." RONALD REAGAN, August 8, 1983
World 1-1 Cast Member Patrick Scott Patterson Shares His Thoughts

World 1-1 Cast Member Patrick Scott Patterson Shares His Thoughts

During our review process for the critically acclaimed film World 1-1, an independent video game documentary that covers the birth of the gaming industry, which we highly recommend, multi-media Personality Patrick Scott Patterson graciously reached out to provide his thoughts on the film: "I'm beyond amazed at what...