I design casual games and work with talented people to bring them to life. Games fascinate me. I like to make them and I like to take them apart.
I currently work as a PM at Gaia Interactive, where I've been a part of the Monster Galaxy franchise, Rumble Kitten, and two upcoming releases for iOS. All of my professional experience has been in casual gaming so I mostly write about that.
As game designers we want to give players agency, but we also have to decide what players can't do. How can we position the experience of passivity--of non-agency--in a way that adds to a game instead of subtracting from it?
Yeah, there are a million ways to categorize icons. Optimization is a real rabbit hole but it 's fun to go down now and then. I 'd love to see more analyses of art styles in the app store given the large sample size and comparative grossing rankings it makes ...
