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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

Expert Blogs

All You Need is Love
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Fri, 17 May 2013 10:39:00 EDT in
I am hopeful that the people on the inside can do something to change the culture on the outside.
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The Great OS Debate
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:41:00 EDT in
Windows 8 adoption is growing, but what kind of message does that send to Microsoft?
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The Drama of idTech5
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:52:00 EDT in
idTech5 may be a glaring example for the cost of trying something different in the AAA space.
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Time To Review Game Reviews
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:28:00 EDT in Business/Marketing, Console/PC
Let's put a stop to the arrogation of 2 features that rarely share more than some assets between them.
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AAA Envy
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EDT in
Indie; is there ever a good time to quit? AAA envy may just end my career.
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Cloud: We Are Not Ready
Posted by Benjamin Quintero on Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:42:00 EST in
There is reason to be concerned but I don't know if it can be stopped...
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Benjamin Quintero's Comments

Comment In: All You Need is Love [Blog - 05/17/2013 - 10:39]
That 's just it Ian, ... That 's just it Ian, it doesn 't change anything. If complaining in forums and on stage at GDC and typing about change with ALL CAPS is not doing the job then clearly we aren 't doing it right. Don 't you agree I can probably count on one hand ...

Comment In: Cast Away [Blog - 05/15/2013 - 08:00]
Great writeup Ted. I do ... Great writeup Ted. I do feel your frustration and I am honestly a little scared for myself when that day comes. I have over 17 years game programing and 13 years of professional experience and over 7 of them are at my current employer who also tends to bounce around, ...

Comment In: Google+ Games service killed off [News - 05/16/2013 - 04:56]
Classic Google. Spaghetti on the ... Classic Google. Spaghetti on the wall for every product they make and yet their search engine and email are the only ones that still stick. Im sure their Play achievement servers will be shutting down in 6 months too, right behind voice chat and everything else they can 't seem ...

Comment In: The cost of disruption [News - 05/13/2013 - 03:54]
Unless Im mistaken EA just ... Unless Im mistaken EA just bought up a new company that already found success in that space. They didn 't create an internal division to produce successful titles.

Comment In: Warren Spector: Use the storytelling tools that work for games [News - 05/10/2013 - 05:18]
Agreed. My response was more ... Agreed. My response was more directly to the matter of trying to tell that high story that only seems to work when you force the players hand into a narrow view or take away controls. Its not the final answer but its the tool we use right now. But yes ...

Comment In: an in-depth response to darius kazemi's "fuck videogames" [Blog - 05/09/2013 - 03:47]
we say we love Cart ... we say we love Cart Life but we don 't actually want to play it ouch.. haha. r n r nIn the eyes of some people, inherently anything personal has an egotistical quality even if only a small one . The idea of making a game about something personal is ...

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