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Skitchin’ – Lovin’ trashin’ bitchin’

Game Design Vault, Interviews and small talksBy Damiano GerliNovember 14, 2020Leave a comment

Please allow me a quick comparison: Skitchin’ was to Road Rash what Beavis & Butthead were to The Simpsons. Where Road Rash was direct, brash and kind of rude, Skitchin was instead rad, in your face and never afraid to flip the bird. While Electronic Arts did release a few “different” games in the early…

SimCopter – how we learned hurting Sims is fun

Game Design VaultBy Damiano GerliMay 9, 2020Leave a comment

While the overall narrative on the importance of the release of SimCity 2000 might be a bit less impactful nowadays, it was a gamechanger, perhaps even more so than the original title, SimCopter? Well definitely less so. After the resounding success of its city builder, Maxis seemed to be struggling to find a market for…

Rings of Power – Naughty Dog’s last pure game

Game Design VaultBy Damiano GerliFebruary 29, 20208 Comments

Rings of Power, in 25 years of gaming journalism I’ve written four articles about the game, even though this is my first in English. On one hand it will be a load off my shoulders if this is the last time I’m publishing something about this game. Maybe, finally, this time I will say everything…

1999 – the sequels year

Game Design Vault, History of VideogamesBy Damiano GerliDecember 30, 2019Leave a comment

No one was paying attention to the end of the decade that fateful 31st of December 1999. Hey, we had more important things on our hands. It was the end of the millennium! Perhaps, people were busy sending heaps of sms to their friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…

Haunting starring Polterguy – Blood Guts & Gore

Game Design VaultBy Damiano GerliNovember 15, 2019Leave a comment

It is a well known fact that, originally, Electronic Arts was not the evil colossus that would become, later, in the 00s, but a very different kind of company that attracted all kinds of talented designers, managing to release some of the more interesting titles of the 80s. Still, even after the departure of Trip…

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