The whole “LPing makes it original content” thing is pretty iffy for me. I mean what about cutscenes? What about on-rails games? What about games like PW that are essentially identical for each playthrough (no, going to the wrong screen every now and then doesn’t make it original content). I think there are a lot of games that allow for creative…[Read more]

Sooo, here’s a wrap up. The evaluation phase has ended and the final results were announced. I’m at 848th place out of 1610 submitted games. Not terribly good, but not terribly bad either.

Here’s the detailed breakdown and comments:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=17675

People think my game was relatively…[Read more]

I didn’t watch the whole thing, but it seems that Xbox One is a pretty smart move on them, and it will be highly successful if it’s done right. In short, they’ve decided to abandon hardcore gamers and focused entirely on the most profitable segment of gaming population: casual gamers. They are targeting average U.S. households that have a decent…[Read more]

Just a quick notice. I tweaked the map page a bit and added the Server Statistics graph.

> As far as monetizing combined works. Well, how do programs that are used for commercial works manage this sort of thing?

Software license is a mess. Most of the times, you “embed” commercial libraries (read: engines, components, frameworks, etc.) into your finished product, but the terms and conditions for each library vary a lot. Some…[Read more]

Whoa, whoa. I didn’t realize you’ve made so many episodes, Pd! And they’re very good! I kinda knew you’ve started a new series, but I simply forgot about it for a while and was still subscribed to your old channel. I’ll keep check it out from now. Again, thanks for the good show. Simply put, Minecraft Awesome Is Awesome … Is Awesome.

Yesterday at the Minecraft server…

To kshade: I was thinking of something like the Heavy Rain episode. Of course it wasn’t identical to anyone else’s gameplay, but I could say it’s similar enough to the point that it invalidates my need of buying the game, because I don’t think I could have a better experience playing the game by myself rather than watching the show. Yeah, people…[Read more]

I think the fundamental problem here is that there’s no easy way to handle a combined work in the current copyright laws. LPs are very complex work. It is a combination of a video game and a player, and a video game itself is a combination of a program, music and graphics, etc. Furthermore, a program itself is often a combination of many smaller…[Read more]

Calm down, bro. This is typical Internet hysteria that we all know too well, and you shouldn’t just pick up the most ugly part of the Internet (arbitrary) and exaggerate it as if it is a problem of the entire Net. This kind of attitude is worsening the issue because it induces emotional responses from both sides. You don’t know how those news…[Read more]

It may sound strange, but Nintendo is already a software company in a sense. In NES/SNES era, Nintendo was a primarily hardware company because making hardware was much more expensive than software, and Nintendo was pretty much the only console at that time (at least in Japan). Today, however, hardware is very cheap and making software is far more…[Read more]