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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

WiiWare: Game Developer Magazine Have A Closet Look At 'My Life As A King'

GamerBytes' big brother Gamasutra have posted some excerpts from the latest Game Developer Magazine, in which they get behind the scenes with Square-Enix on Final Fantasy's WiiWare Debut - My Life As a King.

"Very early in the development cycle, for example, we invested a lot of time iterating our battle system and the battle report design. We thought at the time that the game would be fun if the battle reports were interesting. We focused on trying to make the battle reports as short as possible while also fun to read.

"Two or three months after we thought we were done with the battle system, we finally had the rest of the game in place. That was when we realized that anyone playing this game was not going to read the battle reports.

Check out the whole article here.

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