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Change Of Address Noel suggested that I post one last update to the CityDesk version of GameArchitect for the benefit of anyone still watching the RSS feed. I've switched to using WordPress for new entries. The new site can still be found at www.gamearchitect.net. The new RSS feed is available at http://gamearchitect.net/feed/. Enjoy! The Flow of Intentional Gameplay (or why the Wii is winning, yet people still don't play Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock) I'm not a game designer, nor do I play one on TV. As a core technology engineer, I spend most of my time dealing with the infrastructure of game programming: resource management, concurrency, serialization and scene hierarchy. On the other hand, I've developed games for many years now, and it's hard not to form opinions. Software Is Hard
Fracture The game that I'm working on has just been announced! To learn all about it, visit the official site for Fracture. We're only a year and a half in, with a year of development still to go, but it's without a doubt the best game I've ever worked on. GDC 2007
Why C++? A number of different on-line forums have seen recent discussion of whether C++ is a wise language choice for game development. The dominance of C++ has been overwhelming. But if on-line discussion is any indication, there's also a good deal of dissatisfaction. Given all this discontent... Why C++? Why has it been so successful, and does the language deserve to see that success continue?
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"Software is hard," reads the quote from Donald Knuth that opens Scott Rosenberg's 
It's Game Developers Conference season again. The show was more crowded than I've ever seen it. Attendance was probably somewhere between 13,000 and 15,000. That's a couple thousand more than filled Arrowhead Pond to watch welterweight champ Matt Hughes finish BJ Penn at UFC 63.