Category Archives: Game Reviews

Dragon Age Redemption

I’ve finally gotten around to watching the six episodes in the web series “Dragon Age Redemption” starring Felicia Day. What did I think? Well I’ll qualify what follows with two points: I don’t like web series. I find they have too much preamble and postamble for a few minutes of entertainment. I don’t generally go …

December 16, 2011 – 3:59 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)

My Years at BioWare

Somebody came by today asking to read the little write ups I did for each year I had worked at BioWare. I had assumed I had created a functional table of contents somewhere but could not find it (talk about Lazy…) Anyways I’ve modified the first journal entry, the one describing my first year with …

October 5, 2011 – 8:16 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, The Lazy Designer | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Hathead

So I’ve come to recognize that I wear many hats. I’m a retired game designer, a writer, a software developer, and a consultant. I also blog and I’m (somewhat) active on various social media sites. While wearing the vast majority of my hats I truly want to encourage others to connect with me. I enjoy …

September 9, 2011 – 4:26 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Empire Avenue, Game Reviews, Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Free and Lazy

If you’d like a chance to read the Lazy Designer for free please head over to my Facebook Page and read the instructions on my latest post there.

September 4, 2011 – 10:03 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, The Lazy Designer | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Recently Played – Emissary of War

As I noted a few days ago former BioWare co-worker Tobyn Manthrope recently released a new videogame “Emissary of War” for iOS devices. Well I finally squeezed some time in to play through the free first chapter. It was fun. Regular readers know I’m a fan of tactical RPGs and though Emissary doesn’t have a …

September 3, 2011 – 9:09 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Emissary of War

Cedar Hill Games, founded by my former BioWare co-worker Tobyn Manthrope has released a new videogame “Emissary of War” for iOS devices. The first chapter is available for free. He is also writing a series for Gamasutra and so far it has been interesting and full of valuable information, especially to any of you out …

August 19, 2011 – 9:52 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Designing Frustration (Part 1)

PART 1 I don’t know about the rest of you but I have tried multiple digital-task management solutions, from Excel to Outlook to Google Tasks and more. Currently I’m using Excel sheets again to keep track of which blog posts need writing, what projects I want to tackle next and so on. But tasks written …

July 1, 2011 – 2:23 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, The Lazy Designer | Tagged , , , , | Comments (6)

Testing…testing…testing

This post is just a test of my using the iPad for posting blog content over the summer. Plan to do a bit of traveling so I wanted to make sure this will work. Any tips from some of the more experienced connected-travellers out there? Also, just so this post has some content, have you …

June 29, 2011 – 2:04 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, My Life | Comments (4)

The Lazy Designer

I realize that most of my blog post have been writing related of late and to rectify that I’m going to try to focus, for July, mostly on Lazy Designer ‘video game’ content. I have several half-written articles and will try to finish as many as feasible. There will be a bit of writing news …

June 23, 2011 – 1:08 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Tagged | Comments (0)

Indy Alpha

Just a quick post to direct your attention to Mark Barazzuol’s blog. Indy Alpha Mark is a former BioWare designer who’s now forging ahead into indie game development. He has a lot of experience (we worked together on Dragon Age) and I’m curious to see what he’ll be working on. His latest post is looking …

May 28, 2011 – 12:50 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)