HeavenGames Announces Column by Gordon Farrell
LOMBARD, IL - HeavenGames LLC today announced that award-winning single player campaign designer Gordon Farrell will write a regular column for HGS entitled Solo: Essays and Commentary on the Art of the Single Player Game. The column is slated for a March 1st launch.
Professor Farrell has been designing AAA games since 1999, when he joined the team that created the original Empire Earth. Since then, he has worked on strategy titles such as the expansion pack for Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, Caesar IV, and Children of the Nile. He is currently Lead Writer and a member of the scenario design team for Reverie World Studios’ first game, Dawn of Fantasy, due for release in Fall 2008. He is the author of some of the highest-rated and most popular campaigns and scenarios at HeavenGames Sites, including Age of Empires Heaven, Age of Kings Heaven, Caesar 3 Heaven, and Stronghold 2 Heaven. In addition to his HGS mods, he has popular, highly-rated Civilization 4 mods uploaded at CivFanatics.
Prof. Farrell studied playwriting and screenwriting at Yale University, and began turning his talents toward game design in the late 1990s. Currently, he is on the faculty of New York University, where he teaches narrative theory for video games, theory of screenwriting, and advanced studies in dramatic art. He also lectures at Marymount Manhattan College in video games, script analysis, and theatre history. He has been appointed a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University six times. In 2002, Prima Games published his essay, “The Theory of Scenario Design.”
His extensive professional and academic experience promises an exciting column filled with commentary on the art of games that will be both controversial and thought-provoking.
According to Prof. Farrell, “My first column will be entitled ‘Towards the Art of the Game’ and I’m going to start off by asking some challenging questions about the nature of art and whether games will meet the criteria for being considered art. Then I’m going to offer practical pointers on how the best single player experiences are created by designers. Sometimes I’ll review SP Campaigns from retail games or report on game seminars I’ve attended, starting with Ken Levine’s recent presentation at the NYU Skirball Center for New Media. So look forward to some provocative stuff!”
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February 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I think i must come to visit HG more often, this is an excellent idea.
I apologize if I begin impatient, but when it will begin?
P.S.: The Successors rules!