PS3 The Game
I think I can finally tell the world about this. I spent a couple of months at LOVE (lovely bunch of award winning chaps) in the summer, working on a Top Secret project to create a whole herd of mini games in record time (I think it worked out at 1 mini game every 2 days) for ‘The Game’ a fantastic game site concept – one half of the world (Team A) versus the other half (Team B). You choose a team then collect points by playing challenges (user-created timelines of mini games and questions). The points go towards your team’s total. Dunno what happens then, I guess we’ll find out when the challenge deadline arrives.
It was really cool to do some games again, and throwing a game together in 2 days really focuses your skills on the mechanics of what you’re doing. So many games I’ve worked on have revolved around a product or a brand at the detriment of game play, so it was nice to concentrate on fun for a change. You know, like games are meant to be about.
We used the box2d physics engine for lots of the games, which (once you get your head around it) gives you the tools to make something worthy of a PlayStation site.
So get over to The Game and join a team (Team B is where the cool kids are) and try all the games, or just play all my mini games in the challenge I created.