Ernest AdamsThe Designer's Notebook

Online Articles

This page contains links to a few other on-line articles I have written that weren't part of the Designer's Notebook series. Many of the websites these articles were originally published in have gone offline, so I am keeping an archive here.

December 14, 2000

Of Good Guys and Bad Guys, Generals and Gangsters (Gamedev.net)

April 26, 2002

Putting Madden in Madden: Memoirs of an EA Sports Video Producer (Gamasutra)

June 6, 2002

From Casual to Core: A Statistical Mechanism for Studying Gamer Dedication (Gamasutra, with Barry Ip as principal author)

May 18, 2006

My Perfect Game (GameSetWatch.com)

July 24, 2006

Secrets of Interactive Storytelling (Next Generation, deleted from their site)

August 2006

The Story Behind Dungeon Keeper 3 (PC Games That Weren't, offline)

October 9, 2006

Fifty Books for Everyone in the Game Industry (Next Generation)

August 12, 2007

Celebrating the Female Game Developers of Yesteryear (Next Generation)

November 1, 2007

50 Greatest Game Design Innovations (Next Generation)