Author Archives: bma5176

I feel like we can incorporate what Schelle described in our book to DOTA 2. This game is very frustrating. There are 100+ heroes and 100+ items. You are going to have to learn all of them to be good at … Continue reading →

Very soon we will be giving our pitch presentations. What does a company like EA have to do during a pitch presentation for funding of the next Madden game? At what point will the company say “Enough is enough.” As … Continue reading →

Now this is a changing concept in the game industry, so much change that we had a discussion in class about this phenomenon. We see this trend that newer games are slowly getting rid of the instruction manuals. Now when … Continue reading →

I was recently playing some GTA 4 and made my way to Happiness Island to be greeted by a door “No Hidden Content This Way.” Of course my first instinct was to go in. Inside there was a giant beating heart. … Continue reading →

Titan Fall is an upcoming title and is currently in beta. It was designed by one of the co-creators of Call of Duty and employs many of the developers who were part of that franchise. After watching a few videos … Continue reading →

Mass effect on steam may give you a problem. If you try to run it through your library it may not load. The solution that worked for me was to close steam and then run steam as an administrator.

Hello, my name is Bret Amerman. I have a few online aliases that I choose to go by such as BMAmerman, Smilin’ Conqueror, and Initialarm60 (Origin, Steam, and everything else, respectively). I played my first video game, Super Mario All-Stars, … Continue reading →