"The royalty deals that publishers offer you are rubbish," reveals Mark Morris, director of Introversion Software, a three-man company that has won critical acclaim for its two self-published titles: the hacking simulator Uplink and, most recently Darwinia, a game that revolves around a futuristic virtual world overrun by killer viruses.
It is a game that revolves around programming a simple robot to reach the end of a level.
Befitting a game that revolved around questions of health and injury, it was mostly a hobbled, painful thing to watch Tuesday night, especially when compared to the Oklahoma City Thunder/San Antonio Spurs game the night before.
Swatches is a puzzle game that revolves around competing to control the largest blocks of color against five live opponents or the AI.
The most recent title is the PlayStation Portable game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, an action role-playing game that revolves around Zack's past.
Could Rafa ever play a game that doesn't revolve around controlling a point, or trying to — scrambling, darting, hustling — until he has a forehand (just to the right of midcourt, preferably, and a little short) that he can drive inside out or inside in with laser accuracy and nearly unimaginable pace and topspin?
Players, most of them, are conscious of statistics because it is a game that perhaps more than any other revolves around figures.
The idea, Eidos Montreal's narrative director Mary DeMarle told me, is to create a highly replayable game that doesn't revolve around your choices at the end, as Human Revolution did.
Link and Zelda appeared in several episodes of Captain N: The Game Master that revolved around themes from The Adventure of Link.
All this interest revolves around a fantasy game that allows online players to trade "securities" whose prices forecast the first four weeks of box office revenue for new and yet-to-be-released films.
Mind Candy's signature game, Perplex City, is a combination of a story, a game, and a real-life treasure hunt that revolves around the search for a missing treasure, a valuable artefact, the Receda Cube, which has been stolen from Perplex City and buried somewhere on Earth.
