Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
16.
Nintendo, “Wii Sports,”
http://us.wii.com/wiisports/.
17.
Steven E. Jones,
The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strate-
gies
(New York: Routledge, 2008).
18.
Seth Schiesel, “Video Games Conquer Retirees,”
The New York Times
, 30
March 2007.
19.
Matt Casamassina, “Wii Sports Review: Simple. Fun. But Does It Have Any
Depth?,” IGN,
http://wii.ign.com/articles/745/745708p1.html.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Ryan Davis, “Wii Sports Review,” GameSpot,
http://www.gamespot.com/
22.
In this midst of this, it is relevant to note that one of the other key design
elements of
Wii Sports
is the fact that, after a game is fi nished, a player needs
to press A to continue past certain screens. One of those screens asks players
to decide whether to play again or quit. By placing the default cursor on play
again, in combination with the relatively short games, I suspect many other
players have had my experience of unintentionally playing another game
when intending to quit.
23.
Tycho, “Prognostication,” Penny Arcade,
http://www.penny-arcade.
24.
I fi nd this to be a really troubling name for this subcategory of games. It
works better than 'Facebook games,' as some of these games are not found
on Facebook and Facebook games can vary. It is better than casual games,
as many of these games are anything but casual. However, social is trouble-
some, as it presumes a connection among people, which these games do not
often promote. They are certainly games that require you to have others play
with you, but players are more often in a position of requesting/demanding
things from their friends, rather than interacting with them socially.
25.
Matt Fairchild, “The Secret Glossary of Social Games Analytics,” Wave-
27.
Gillian Bowditch, “Grand Theft Auto Producer is Godfather of Gaming,”
The Sunday Times,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/
28.
Electronic Arts, “EA Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2009
Results,”(2009), BusinessWire,
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/
29.
Most fl ight paths on Kalimdor originally took fi fteen minutes or more.
30.
Chris Smith, “If EVE and Battletech Got It On,” Levelcapped,
http://level-
31.
James Egan, “The Lowdown on EVE Online's New Player Experience,”
32.
CCP, “EVE Online: F.A.Q.,” CCP,
http://www.eveonline.com/faq/faq_01.
33.
Eve University's website can be found at
http://www.eveuniversity.org/
34.
Beowolf Schaefer, “Trust No One!,” Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship
Management,
http://eve-zen.info/blog/?p=699.
35.
CCP, “EVE Online: F.A.Q.”
36.
Brendan Drain, “Questionable EVE Attack Deals 30 Billion ISK in Dam-
age,” Massively,
http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/10/10/questionable-eve-
