This is a good thing because it saves you from being so busy with your day to day chores and activities. There are so many good ways you can minimize the pain and stress of daily tasks and activities, but what we’re talking about here is not a bad thing. It’s not a bad thing.
Today’s bad news is that our own company is having a bad day. For some reason, there’s a new person in charge of our development team who seems to think that he has the right to make these decisions. He’s now making the decision to cancel the launch of our game’s first expansion because “It’s not our fault that they don’t understand our game.” This is not a good thing.
A bad day at work can be caused by any number of things, but one thing that I constantly see is people claiming that a bad day at work is “our fault,” while others seem to blame everybody else. When I was first working in game development I had a bad day and I blamed myself, but in retrospect I should have blamed the developers. The developers are the ones who are putting the time and effort into their development.
I know I am putting a lot of blame on the developers for the way our game is structured and the way it is presented, but I also know that if I had the foresight to see that a bad day could be caused by bad game design, then I should have foreseen it. In other words, I should have anticipated that a bad day could be caused by a lack of foresight on the part of the person(s) who made the game.
As we’ve all learned, good design takes a team and a set of constraints and combines them together in the best way possible. The developers at Arkane Studios are doing just that with a project that is now three years in the making. In that time, the team has done everything from building a solid game engine to working on the game’s sound, gameplay, and user interface.
In one of the more surprising features of the game, the developers have decided to kill off the game’s central villain in favor of a more complicated story. Players will only be able to play as Colt Vahn, a character who has been locked in an Amnesiac state for three years. He has only seen the world around him through the eyes of a computer feed, and thus can’t tell the difference between real and simulated objects.
The developers have decided to make Colt Vahn the villain of the game, but what they don’t tell you is that the game is going to be even more of a challenge than you thought it would be.