"Action-Adventure" as a genre

Tuesday, 14 October 2008 11:29 by dokbok
When pitching Nightmare, I identified its genre as "Action-Adventure". A comment that met with uproar from a couple of critics. It was suggested to us in a lecture that the "Action-Adventure" genre was a sham-- ... a label slapped on an adventure game-- an endangered... [More]

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Austin Game Developer's Conference

Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:15 by dokbok
Returned to Plano after the Austin Game Developer's Conference today. Overall, a memorable experience. Austin is a fun, small city with a charming bar street and good looking people. Much, much cleaner than San Francisco. 6th street is such a refreshing place to be when you've b... [More]

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i got (anonymously) published!!!.. i think

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 18:14 by dokbok
I was flipping through the fall issue of the Game Career Guide when I stumbled upon the game student survery-- which I responded to sometime earlier this year. To my great surpise, one of my comments appeared to make it in: The "school gets a bad rep" part refers to that former... [More]

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Apology - no UE3 tutorial today.

Wednesday, 23 July 2008 00:33 by dokbok
Howdy, Dunno how many people actually read my blog for the UE3 tutorials.  I figured I write to say that I can't post one today.. and I don't know where #10 went. To make it up, I'll post at least two tomorrow.  For the moment, I'm a bit caught up in trying to ... [More]

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Exhibitng "Sacrifice in Paradise"

Saturday, 12 July 2008 00:36 by dokbok
Today was exhibition day at the Guildhall. It's held every-other term, to showcase thesis projects and team game projects. My last game, Sacrifice in Paradise, was on display. The notice was a bit late, so we only got 4 of 16 team members to show up. Nevertheless, the room was always bus... [More]

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First Entry

Monday, 7 July 2008 22:10 by dokbok
Well, it's the end of Term 5 at the Guildhall at SMU.  I'm attending this graduate program to earn a Masters of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development. I'm starting this blog as part of my website, http://www.janelovesgames.com. I hate to admit that I've large... [More]

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