The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry

In the past nine years, I’ve written around 10,000 stories on games. In this column, I’m going to mention quotes from about 10 of those stories I’ve written. These ten quotes tell me something about the state of the game business today.

I spoke about this at the Devcom event in Cologne, Germany, this week. I called the talk Strategic Zoom, because of Chris Taylor’s game, Supreme Commander. It was a beautiful real-time strategy game where you zoom in on soldiers fighting and zoom out to see the entire battle. You might think the battle is going well when you zoom in. But if you pull out far enough, you might see your forces are surrounded, and the enemy is really winning the battle or the war.