Self Aware Games

08/12/2014

One of the benefits of living in California? Coworkers with citrus trees. Looks like there's a particularly sour one in this bunch of lemons.

07/16/2014

Redeemed! These will look great on the new trophy wall. Can't wait until we have a picture of that to share!

07/16/2014

Ooops!

07/16/2014

We're preparing for a big move and as such, some pinatas just had to go. Here's some of the highlights!

11/07/2013

The trophy wall is up! We're looking forward to adding that list of victims below...

06/17/2013

A sad, sad day for Fleck.

05/13/2013

One of our artists fires up something new. Everyone goes to check it out.

04/10/2013

New blog post re: work-life balance, at least in part in response to a beautiful (but very sad) eulogy for Lucasarts.

Death MarchPosted at 3:48 pm at 04.09.2013 // Leave a comment—View all Company postsBen Kuchera wrote this on the PA Report about the “inhuman cost of game development”.His take on it is entirely accurate, and it’s something I wanted to expound on a little more here, because we work really hard to d...

02/27/2013

I really enjoyed this post dissecting what makes a "grind" vs something fun in an MMO.

Where's the line between fun & grinding for you?

One recurring complaint of MMO players is the "grind". It's interesting taking a look at the history of MMOs, because it becomes obvious that it's mostly player perception that determines what is a grind. Every mechanic that people deride as a grind started out as something fun. In fact, sometimes i...

02/25/2013

Ever wish they gave out Oscars for games? Which ones do you think would win?

02/21/2013

Have you tried out our Food Fight slots in Big Fish Casino? We're pretty excited about these from a game design standpoint because they tell a story and the player is fighting against progressive enemies, including a "boss", which is pretty genre-breaking for slots.

If you were going to take a traditional game mechanic and try to put a new spin on it, what would you try? Or have you done this?