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Benjamin Quintero's Blog   Expert Blogs

Benjamin is the founder of Inland Studios; an independent game company. He has dabbled in just about everything that has to do with gaming, from programmer to entrepreneur to writer and educator.  His love of all things pretty has taken him down a path of graphics programming and technology design.

You can find him at
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bquintero

or ranting at his usual soap box
http://www.inlandstudios.com/

or giving regular updates and random thoughts about the universe
@Ben_Quintero

or pushing his Greenlight games like
Ashlands: Retribution

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The Breaking Point  Featured Blogs
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:29:00 EDT in
Feeling the fatigue, I'm wondering what the next breaking point will be.
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The Cost of Making Games  Featured Blogs
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:35:00 EDT in
The price to pay for working in a creative industry is pretty high if you aren't the gambling type.
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Haters Gonna Hate  Featured Blogs
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:43:00 EDT in
In defense of a word that I don't care to acknowledge...
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My Inner Struggle With The Future  Featured Blogs
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:30:00 EDT in
New hardware is on the horizon. Be careful what you wish for...
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The Death of Free-To-Play  Featured Blogs
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:18:00 EDT in
The future of F2P is now... That's not a good thing.
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Keeping the Framerate in Retribution  Featured Blogs
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:30:00 EDT in Programming, Console/PC
Handling collisions and complex AI awareness for over 1000 dynamic game objects... On a 3D sphere... In C#... On Xbox360... Yeah... I went there.
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Benjamin Quintero's Comments

Comment In: Tactics Ogre creator Matsuno is leaving Level-5 [News - 11/08/2012 - 09:10]

http://www.youtube.com/watch v rY0WxgSXdEE ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch v rY0WxgSXdEE

Comment In: THQ: Is this the beginning of the end? [News - 11/08/2012 - 06:15]

THQ 's biggest problem was ...

THQ 's biggest problem was trying to be unique. If they fell in line with all the other me to publishers then they 'd be in a better place right now. It 's sad to say it but THQ will fail because they tried to be different with their properties. ...

Comment In: Disney buys LucasArts in surprise $4 billion deal [News - 11/08/2012 - 04:16]

This alone would justify Disney ...

This alone would justify Disney 's actions. If they are smart this will be Act 1 Scene 1. Though in all likelihood, he 'll probably just burn off half his body in a lava pit and be made into some kind of Raiden metal gear with floppy swords for ears... ...

Comment In: Microsoft points to big Windows 8 sales to garner dev support [News - 11/08/2012 - 05:00]

If you build a phone-like ...

If you build a phone-like platform, expect phone-like games. r n r nSeriously though, how can you report sales numbers on OS software. That 's like car dealers reporting on how many tires they sold... People will be forced into using Win8 just like they were pushed into using 98, ...

Comment In: RIP Xbox Live Indie Games [Blog - 10/25/2012 - 02:05]

It doesn 't help that ...

It doesn 't help that developers are more likely to be bitten by a shark than receive proper assistance from developer support. 2 months now.. still waiting for a reply. It is very much every man for himself or venture into the forums to suffer the wrath of the god-complex ...

Comment In: Madden NFL 13, FIFA 13 are best-selling games of 2012 right now [News - 11/08/2012 - 04:39]

shooters and action games are ...

shooters and action games are dead move all development to cricket and badminton r n r nOn a serious note, it is kind of funny that sports games are the one kind of game where reviews just don 't matter. I thought this years ' Madden was said to be ...

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