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Spencer Greenwood

Spencer Greenwood has written 2 posts for Critical Distance
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Game controls and the ephemeral ‘feel’

By Spencer Greenwood ⋅ May 12, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

In a recent post at his blog The Inbetween, Mike Nowak bemoans the gap between intent and action which appears when game controls are more than usually complicated. Nowak notes that the unwieldy button combos in the Street Fighter series would seem unacceptable elsewhere.
This [kind of] first person shooter doesn’t exist. Can you imagine the backlash [...]

Cory Doctorow’s Observations on Real Money Generation in Games

By Spencer Greenwood ⋅ April 16, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

In his column at The Guardian today, blogger, novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow claims that the ability of a player to make money from the time they invest in an MMO has become not only a key marketing point for the developers of such games, but an important part of the realisation of a [...]