Object Centric Requirements

The idea that you can look at a problem and find the solution as a set of objects has been a powerful one. There still are very good uses for functional programing and I think there always will be, but in terms of abstractions,  object oriented programing is a good one.

Object Oriented Programing has shown up in our project design documents as well. Look at UML, its all over. But what about Requirements?

Thoughts on Game Complexity and Minecraft

As you all know Minecraft is awesome! Because of that I was trying to figure out what made Minecraft soo awesome. My thought path came down to complexity.

Really enjoyable games are complex. I strongly believe that the more complex a game it, the more rewarding it is. This presents a major problem for game developers, they need to add this complexity. Complexity creates two problems that I see.

Ryan is Definitely Cool Enough!

A recent scientific study has proven with a 2.5% chance of error that Ryan is most definitely cool enough to make up words. This has come to a surprise to most, but there were many hints of this actually being the case.

“I had seen him do it one, it was magnificent” said John Browning, “It was the best word I have heard in a long time!”. John owns a local Subway restaurant.

“This means big new things” said Dustin Hamershine, a Material Engineer that works HP, “This opens up a whole new way of thinking about how to store data on disk!”.

Ryan has refused to comment.