DeeCoder

What is Cargo Cult Design? Have you ever tried to follow other successful games and apps design while working on yours..??.I am not talking about graphics or other stuff. I am talking about those "Special qualities" that we think made it successful.Well at some point or other we all try to make many things as they were in other successful apps. OK Dee i got it..but title of this post is about some Cargo-cult thing..........whats that ?.and whats the problem with this approach..?  The problem is that reason behind these successful ones is not there design,yes it matters but not as much as the their luck. This kind of approach can lead to the the "cargo cult design".This term cargo cult comes from the per-industrial period.You see there were many tribes in pacific region. These tribes were exposed to the cargo coming from western countries.This was obviously beneficial for these tribal people but as the westerners left the cargo ceases to arrive, l...

Game Engines | What has changed.......Commercially  OK so we all have played a lot of video games since our childhood but we have been always curious about whats under the hood.Well this curiosity lead very few of us to world of mods or some of us ends in game industry like me (Not really :)).But there are some problems in becoming a game developer and living a cool life, most common one is we don't want to learn 3-4 programming languages and then dump hours in learning game development and then making a game by putting more hours (or may be days or maybe months or years). So whats the solution, as the game industry moved on the softwares called game editors . These are built upon game engines to make game development more easy for game designers. Hmm sounds good well more good as the time passed more tools came making the process of game making easier and easier with less and less code and math involved. But then arrived the "Coding less game development tools...