Here is something for you on your summer holidays. It is the view of GamePro of 20 most innovative games for past 20 years. It is heavily game-mag-biased, but interesting in any case.

Annakaisa Kultima presented two research papers at Future Play 2010 Conference, Vancouver May 6 – 7, 2010:

Kultima, A.  “The Organic Nature of Game Ideation: Game Ideas Arise from Solitude and Mature by Bouncing”

Kultima, A. & Stenros, J. “Designing Games for Everyone: The Expanded Game Experience Model”

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Greetings! My name is Tero Laukkanen and I’m a game designer / producer at Moido Games. In this post mortem of sorts I will discuss the design process behind Hopido (App Store link), our first iPhone game released in October 2009. Hopido was actually the first game released as a “Moido product”. The early years of Moido have been spent primarily on client projects. For example, we’ve developed about a dozen online lottery games for Veikkaus (The Finnish National Lottery), many of them from our own concepts.

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