Posts by Allen Cheung
Outsized Credit to Undersized Effort
It's easy to derive patterns and conjure connections from the tidbits of news that we consume daily. Whether it's drawing a line between the strategy underlining all of Microsoft's products, to placing all the…
What Happened to Final Fantasy?!
This generation of consoles has not been kind to Japanese game developers. The quality of games from "western" game developers has leaped ahead in terms of innovative systems, advanced technology and worldwide appeal; while Japanese quirkiness has proven…
Used Games and the Modern Gaming Economy
As disgusting as it felt, I went out today and sold a bunch of my PS3 games to Gamespot. Then turned around and used that credit to buy a few other games, thus enabling the second-hand gaming market to…
The Free-to-Play Gaming Evolution
Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding (Kickstarter), the development process (ranging from tiny one-person indie shops to global studios), the medium…
10 Front-End Development Tools
I saw this list of ten supposedly tools "you can't live without" and found it lacking; it's more of a list of IDEs/text editors and frameworks which a front-end could choose from.…
Assuming Everybody Else Sucked
The year was 2010. We were searching for the next big Facebook app, high off our previous successes. This was when Facebook just released the News Feed, and everything from cute icons to animated fake pets made millions from ad…
