by Jennifer Mendez | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog
It’s well-known that being creative is synonymous with being rather volatile. One minute, we’re letting the creativity flow and the next minute, we’re questioning whether the past work week was really our best, most inspiring effort. We all feel as though the...
by Dorian Karahalios | Mar 29, 2016 | Blog, Marketing, Writing
Gather round, children, and I will tell you the tale of Daniel (yes, the Daniel of Black Shell Media!), a game developer on a quest to create one bitchin’ retro rogue-like RPG. I was but a boy when this fabled developer wandered into my small writing subreddit with...
by Jennifer Mendez | Mar 28, 2016 | Blog
It’s become this common thing in gaming where NPCs ramble on with seemingly no purpose, making players skip through the dialogue and miss the little valuable bits of information scattered throughout. It seems we’ve forgotten that to make good characters. What...
by Michael Murphy | Mar 27, 2016 | Blog
Depending on where you live drugs may either be a huge controversy or as normal as apple pie. Drugs have influenced countless games and have even made their way into many games, even today. Yes- play almost any M rated game and you will either see cocaine on a desk or...
by Alan McInnes | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog
With the increased amount of people looking to sink a bit of spare time into gaming, the “Free to Play” market of video games has gained so much traction that it now is responsible for around 1/3rd of all revenue within the games industry. Unfortunately,...
