http://gameattorney.com/blog Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:27:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A read a lot of development deals. Some contracts from nice folks and others from no so nice folks. It is a great part of what I do. So, when fellow IGDA Board member Darius Kazemi emailed me about a week ago to help clear up some ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=89 The game industry has opened up in a big way over the past few years. In addition to traditional PC and console platforms, we have new iPhone and browser based social games being released every day. These new platforms have the advantage of being relatively simpler to develop ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=88 Quality of Life in the game industry suffered another black eye with the posting of an open letter by a group who identified themselves as Rockstar’s Wives on Gamasutra. It looks like the wholesale exploitation of impassioned developers in our industry is alive and well and living in beautiful ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=87 I sure screwed the pooch on that one…I am, of course referring to my prior posts taken by many to be in defense of Langdell and much of the communication with his numerous critics that followed. The whole thing seemed pretty simple…trademark, alleged trademark violation, legal dispute…heck, this is ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=86 Well that was fun. I had the pleasure of doing my first Webinar entitled Indie Gold: Downloadable Content Models for Core Casual Games, as part of the IGDA Members Only Webinar Series. This program is something that the IGDA board had talked about from time to time but ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=85 Randy Pitchford, from Gearbox, the creators of Borderlands, recently did an interview for Maximum PC in which he took a shot a Steam, saying that it amounted to a conflict of interest and that Valve was taking advantage of small studios. I could not disagree more. Steam provides independent ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=84 I just got back from LA and E3. I have to say that as much as I have been offended by the excesses of E3, it is great to have it back on the annual schedule of events. After spending a great deal of time and effort working ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=83 This is a response to the recent dust up over, IGDA Board member Tim Langdell and the EDGE Trademark . I am speaking now for myself and NOT on behalf of the IGDA. I call that a hatchet jobs aimed at Tim L. and at the IGDA because the author, ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=82 This is part of an email to Darius Kazemi regrarding a blow up on one of the IGDA forums as a result of a former IGDA Board members touting the value of working his employees liik dogs, but paying them like princes and the perceived failure of the IGDA to ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=81 After some serious soul searching, I have decided to resign all of my various positions with the IGDA including the Board of Directors and as the Chair of the IGDA Foundation. Several matters have come up recently that have made me realize that my efforts within the IGDA on ... http://gameattorney.com/blog/?p=80