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Patrick Miller's Blog Expert Blogs

Professional ninja. Also, editor of Game Developer Magazine.

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Playing with money = playing with emotions
Posted by Patrick Miller on Tue, 14 May 2013 02:51:00 EDT in Smartphone/Tablet, Social/Online, Console/PC, Design
Microtransaction-driven free-to-play games often get a bad rap because many of them make players feel nickled-and-dimed at every step. Perhaps we can avoid this by looking at the real-world purchases we make that make us feel good instead of duped.
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Futureproofing games journalism
Posted by Patrick Miller on Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:56:00 EDT in
In which Game Developer magazine editor Patrick Miller opines once again on the future of games journalism -- and what we can do to futureproof our skillset as the traditional model continues to decline.
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Gender Gap and the Game Developer Salary Survey
Posted by Patrick Miller on Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:19:00 EDT in Business/Marketing
Game Developer magazine editor Patrick Miller comments on the latest Game Developer Salary Survey and the gender gap in the games industry.
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Post-GDC Reverie
Posted by Patrick Miller on Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:28:00 EDT in
Another GDC is over and done! My four top takeaways from GDC 2013.
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Adblock and Destructoid
Posted by Patrick Miller on Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:44:00 EST in Business/Marketing
A recent post by Destructoid EIC further hammers home the necessity for consumer games publications to step their game up (and switch from an ad-driven business model).
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Hate the game, not the journalist: Another meditation on games journalism
Posted by Patrick Miller on Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:23:00 EST in Business/Marketing
Why bad writing, boring content, and rewritten press releases are all symptoms of deeper underlying problems with games journalism -- problems that aren't confined to the journalists themselves.
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Patrick Miller's Comments

Comment In: Xbone - A Call To Arms [Blog - 05/22/2013 - 05:07]
XBONE ... XBONE

Comment In: Playing with money = playing with emotions [Blog - 05/14/2013 - 02:51]
Ramin: Play MWO and tell ... Ramin: Play MWO and tell me what you think. F2P devs that I 've talked to characterize P2W as gating off certain items to only cash purchases, not offering cash purchases as a way to minimize the grind. I personally prefer this to forcing everyone to grind and paying to ...

Comment In: Opinion: Let's retire the word 'gamer' [News - 05/15/2013 - 03:51]
This is it right here, ... This is it right here, folks All in favor of replacing Gamer with Jerkface , say aye

Comment In: Pro-gamer migration to League of Legends reveals tension between eSports communities [Blog - 05/08/2013 - 10:00]
Who cares Competitive games aren ... Who cares Competitive games aren 't better or worse based on how much content they have.

Comment In: Gender Gap and the Game Developer Salary Survey [Blog - 04/04/2013 - 03:19]
Most likely a statistical anomaly. ... Most likely a statistical anomaly. As I wrote in the post, those averages were derived from almost 500 male programmers vs. 22 female programmers.

Comment In: Industry in flux: What we learned from Game Developer's 2012 Salary Survey [News - 04/04/2013 - 05:03]
Only salary. ... Only salary.

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