Laundry list of things I hope to blog...
I haven't been very active here for a few reasons. 1) Been doing overtime. Not as crazily as some others, but I'm doing 9, 9.5 hours a day instead of my fairly steadfast 8. 2) Since I'm in Japan, I want to take advantage of the amazing self-publishing resources available. They aren't necessarily as sophisticated as Lulu in ways(no ISBN # help and it's not Print on Demand) but unlike Lulu, the process is far more affordable and friendly for individuals who want to make a high quality book in the 20 page range.
Anyways, my to-do list goes as follows. Perhaps all of you out there could help prioritize the list!
- Beyond East & West: Nintendo as a Global Standard of Quality.
- Let's Dissect! What makes Monster Hunter Freedom Unite/2nd G Fun!
- Forced Evolution: Stories of Adapting to a Western Development Method
- A random Japanese cultural column. I thought of this since today I took part in "mame nage" or a bean throwing ritual to ward off demons. If you want this to be about work culture and job, I could do that too.
- The Level Design of Every Day Places. My local subway station as a surprise source of level design enlightenment. The use of cues, placement and some incredibly useful information.
- Social Experiment with Monster Hunter. This might not come for a while since it requires me to go to a public place in my free time and see if I can get along with total strangers through a few sessions of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.
- Prattle on a random video game design topic of your choosing!
- Something not mentioned on this list.
Comments
5. I'd like to hear about this.
7 , " Mario can't commit suicide " ( Is there any reason to play this game ? )
" What if I'm one of the enemies ? " ( The only reason I exisit is to get killed ? The only reason I exisit is to hold back ' them ' ? Nothing can ever change for me unless the game is destroyed or ended < Agent Smith > )
" Pay Offs ? " ( Up until you could sell MMORPG items for real cash , this is an activity with no real ' pay off ' what so ever ... why do this ? )
I'm a bit curious about the topic of video gaming as spectator sport. Isn't there a TV show in Japan that shows people playing old games?
I have this crazy idea that even though Japanese people won't play American made games, maybe they'd watch them on TV. If a Halo LAN tournament was shown on TV entirely from the 3rd person, and much of the time during the tournament the camera would cut away from the game screen and show the players as they play it, would Japanese people watch that on TV? Give them a very detached glimpse of what the heck those crazy Yanks are doing?
The other big east-meets-west thing I'm interested in is Japanese game companies making CG movies in-house, but since you don't work for Square-Enix maybe that's a moot point.
As for the TV show, I'm not really sure. I've seen some strange stuff over here and that TV show about old people is highly plausible given everything.
Many companies have the capability of making CG movies, see Metal Gear Solid 4. Lots of cutscenes but they're amazing. Seriously.