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[Editor’s note: James Zhang is CEO of Concept Art House, a high-end art service provider based in San Francisco and Shanghai, China. CAH has done visual development work for top social and mobile game companies including Zynga, Crowdstar, Rockyou, Kabam, LOLapps, Openfeint, and Ngmoco.] When asked if high quality art matters in social games, developers’…
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Gestalt Psychology, Theory these have been very important for visual and experiential perception for a century. They rely on a foundation of contrast or distinction between “figure” and “ground”, presence and absence, sound and silence. I have taken this contrast to be meaningful or “meaning bearing” and so relate it to principals of semiotics. When…
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Game design is the rapidly growing chosen option at design schools because the art of creating immersive worlds is fascinating besides being a platform to unleash creativity where anyone would like the master of the universe by unveiling worldly environments out of their minds. The time of treating games as a sole form of entertainment…