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Matthias Zarzecki's Blog

Matthias Zarzecki is an Unity-Award-nominated Indiegame-designer, iPhone-Dev and game-design-student. Go see his stuff at www.matthewongamedesign.com

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Replaying Tomb Raider 2 twelve years later - A retrospective
Posted by Matthias Zarzecki on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:55:00 EST in Console/PC, Design
A look into the depths of Tomb Raider 2 to see how well it holds up
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The Two Kinds of Proficiency in Games, and the Two Kinds of Criticism
Posted by Matthias Zarzecki on Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:27:00 EST in
A game can be good at bad in two areas - Structure and Theme. Funnily enough, this could also help understand how the 7-9-Review-Scale works.
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The Color of Games
Posted by Matthias Zarzecki on Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:21:00 EST in Console/PC, Art
Games can have certain colors associated with them. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is gold. Are there more?
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Why I probably won't take part in the IndieSpeedRun
Posted by Matthias Zarzecki on Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:35:00 EST in Indie, Design
How the IndieSpeedRun-jam isn't that appealing to Indies
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Tomb Raider 3 - 14 years later, pt.3
Posted by Matthias Zarzecki on Tue, 01 May 2012 05:06:00 EDT in Console/PC, Design
It has been 14 years since Tomb Raider 3 came out. How will it stand up? Will its features look positive from todays's perspective, or will it be completelx antiquated?
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Tomb Raider 3 - 14 years later, pt.2
Posted by Matthias Zarzecki on Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:18:00 EDT in Design, Console/PC
I continue exploring the game-design of the 14-year-old Tomb Raider 3. Part 2 of 3.
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Comment In: The Two Kinds of Proficiency in Games, and the Two Kinds of Criticism [Blog - 02/27/2013 - 03:27]
Ha, so true : r ... Ha, so true : r n r nFiguring out how to call these terms was somewhat difficult, I 'd welcome better ones :

Comment In: Indie Elitism [Blog - 02/25/2013 - 11:38]
Totally love this discussion :D ... Totally love this discussion :D

Comment In: Tomb Raider 3 - 14 years later, pt.1 [Blog - 04/19/2012 - 04:36]
My personal favorite is Tomb ... My personal favorite is Tomb Raider 2. It 's easily the most coherent with the smallest amount of invisble-walls and railroading of the classic ones. But I can 't really decide which of the new ones could be the best, they 're all interesting :

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