Krystian Majewski

Krystian Majewski was born in Warsaw and studied design at Köln International School of Design. Before, he was working on a mid-size console project for NEON Studios in Frankfurt. He helped establish a Master course in Game Design and Research at the Cologne Game Lab. Today he teaches Game Design at various institutions and develops independent games.

Website: http://www.krystian.de

Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 3

There is a new Episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast up. This time it’s about Urgent Quests. We finally get to discuss individual monsters. We do a run-down of general strategies for 3 Urgent Quest monsters – the Barroth, the Lagiacrus and the Jhen.

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Enjoy!

Bonus CGL Poster

Bonus CGL Poster

Currently a bit swamped. TRAUMA update coming up. Until then, here is a poster I made a year ago or so. I recently dug it up and realized that I haven’t posted it before.

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I did this to promote the start of Cologne Game Lab at GamesCom 2009. The Cologne Game Lab is the institute I’m [...]

Get Get Lamp

Just a quick post today. The Internet multi-celebrity researcher Jason Scott recently finished the work on his newest documentary Get Lamp. Here is a trailer.

The documentary is about text adventures. It features an excellent selection of interviewees. I already noticed that there are not too much people dedicated to preserve material and resources on that particular [...]

Zergling Rush

The Zergling Rush is probably one of the most recognizable gambits in the gaming culture. Even players, who never played StarCraft often have a rudimentary idea what it is is referring to. In fact, the term is so well-know that it seems to have undergone a slight semantic shift. People often mistake it with attacking [...]

Guided Multi-Player

Guided Multi-Player

Initially, multi-player was without form, and void. People would randomly engage with each other in endless, monotonous Quake 3 matches. Then came Call of Duty 4. It introduced simple RPG elements into multi-player. Players would collect experience points, unlock achievements and upgrades. They would maintain a profile across matches. It provided a rudimentary structure to [...]

Limbo

I know you probably already know about it is slow news day. The game Limbo came out recently.

I was able to play the game at this year’s IGF already. I haven’t bought it yet due to my backlog. But it is certainly an intriguing title. There are two things I like about it and one thing [...]

Canceling in TRAUMA

Canceling in TRAUMA

There one thing that always gets on my nerves: games often expose players to serious loading times without ever giving any means to cancel a loading sequence. This actually turns a lot of the choices in an interface into very unforgiving time wasters. It can a very frustrating to accidentally select the wrong level. You [...]

I’m Clicking A Cow

I’m Clicking A Cow

Games researcher Ian Bogost, whom I had the extraordinary pleasure with at this year’s IGF, made a Facebook game called Cow Clicker. It’s an intriguing work.

“You earn a click every time you click your cow (moo!). Once you click, you’ll have to wait another six hours to click again. Come back regularly to maximize your clicks.”

It’s basically [...]

Monster Hunter Podcast Episode 2

There is a fresh Episode of the Monster Hunter Podcast up. This time it’s about Armor. We do a quick explenation of how the Armor Skills work, get into some examples of basic and high rank armor setups as well as noteworthy skills in general.

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Starcraft II – First Impressions

Starcraft II – First Impressions

Don’t have much time. I need to edit the podcast, work on TRAUMA and meanwhile, StarCraft II is rocking my world. So far I have to say: StarCraft II is AMAZING. I was in the beta, no surprises there. It was a solid game where I got repeatedly hammered by superior opponents. But this was [...]

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