How close can you get making a Pokemon game before Nintendo sues you? That seems to be the question that an alarmingly large number of developers seem to be asking…
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David Klemke
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It seems false assumptions has led me to yet again roll the dice on a developer’s debut title. There I was, thinking that Nobody Wants to Die was (for whatever…
David Klemke
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There seems to be a template that a lot of indie devs are following. They have aspirations of developing large RPGs, hoping to elevate themselves to the same plane as…
David Klemke
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The gaming public often looks to the indie scene for the new innovations; those experimental features that $_BIG_PUBLISHER would deem too risky for inclusion in a blockbuster title. There are…
David Klemke
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It’s 2013 and I find myself in New Orleans covering TechEd North America for Lifehacker. My days were filled with the conference, running between sessions and jotting down as many…
David Klemke
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There’s still a hole in my heart left by the “end” I hit with Destiny. A part of me is forever wanting to go back, to continue the story and…
David Klemke
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Ninja Theory’s idea of “Independent AAA” games, ones that traded the scope of a game in order to achieve production values of the same level, is a far more complicated…
David Klemke
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This review was almost never written. Destiny and I go way back, all the way to the start. There’s only a handful of games that I’ve come back to over…
David Klemke
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Expectations are a burden. Try as I might to keep myself aside from envisioning what a game might be like before I buy it I can’t seem but help to…
David Klemke
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The last decade+ I’ve been doing these reviews for has allowed me to watch many developers hone their craft over the years. Most of them get better with age, refining…