Category: Bad Day LA

A reader recently commented on a previous post entitled “The Goodness of Bad Day LA” as follow: Wow, I guess school shooting and gang shootings just aren’t enought for some people. I guess there are just too many people out there making good wholesome games and you figured you had to balance the scale a…

Game development as a creative process has always amazed me. It is an instance of group effort and collaboration similar in my mind to building an airplane while taxiing down a runway towards takeoff. Interdependent systems, assets, and efforts must be combined in the right order and with the right emphasis or the whole endeavor…

If you were wondering why it suddenly got so quiet around here… Bad Day LA production is in “crunch mode”. We’re trying to get things finished up soon, then spend some time on polishing and tuning. Progress is good, but crunching is never any fun. On top of that I’m trying to put the finishing…

I’ve often marvelled at the myopic attention that lawmakers give to violence stemming from the consumption of video games. There are examples a’plenty of other sport and entertainment related acts of violence. Here’s a good one: CNN.com – Brooklyn girl, 9, admits killing playmate – Oct 8, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) — A 9-year-old girl…

I just read an infuriating take on the recent violent video game law passed in California: Wired News: The Tortured Language of the Law Interestingly, the one moment of genuine clarity in the California law is when it frets about games where you can “torture” someone. The legislators define torture as when you intentionally cause…