Ray Mazza | Game Designer & Creator of Merge Dragons

(Pixel art a work of Jude Buffum.)

Or: Zombie Car Botnets are Just Around the Corner
Soon, we’ll have autonomous vehicles on the road, 100% without humans. Well, ,we already do, in some places. But I mean soon they will be ubiquitous.
At first, the impact of self-driving cars seems simple – “Hey, now I can eat Taco Bell while doing tight-quarters yoga in my car on the way to work… just like always, but now it’s safer because my car is driving for me! Wow!” Yes, it will let us spend...

Think of some of your favorite sequels out there – Uncharted 2 or Portal 2 or Diablo 3. How do they make you feel? Sometimes it can be hard to describe what was great about a fantastic sequel, other than it was just awesome, or, phew… they didn’t screw...

A few times each year, a friend of a friend will ask for advice about becoming a game designer. It's usually someone who works a completely unrelated job, or it's a student realizing their major isn't what they had hoped. But that's completely normal...