Ian_Cummings's Blog - Operation Sports

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Posted on February 3, 2010 at 06:09 PM.

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Just to respond officially...

I truly am sorry if people feel like we 'lied'. It's never our intent to create blogs as a way to trick people...that would do nothing for us but create mis-trust among our hardcore fans...in other words there is no reason to fake it and "hype" the community to increase sales because the amount of people we're talking to isn't that large. Development is always a spinning wheel, and sometimes things fall off or don't come together perfectly. We knew that

I started my own blog

Posted on August 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM.

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http://sportsgamedesign.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Turning off private messages

Posted on April 14, 2009 at 11:23 AM.

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Sorry guys, but as we are getting closer and closer to final the amount of time I am able to spend on the site will decrease, so for now I am also turning off private messages as they were just coming too fast and too often (upwards of 20 a day).

I will definitely keep responding to posts and threads.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

NBA following suit!

Posted on February 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM.

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Add NBA to the list for EA Sports (joining us and FIFA) publicly coming out and saying 'no more gimmicks...just gameplay'. Gotta love it!

http://sports.espn.go.com/videogames/news/story?id=3900151

Monday, January 5, 2009

Miyamoto, Bleszinski.....and Cummings??!?!?

Posted on January 5, 2009 at 11:46 PM.

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Phil just sent me this link this afternoon:

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/20...ame-designers/

As much as of honor it is to show up in a list like this, I'd have ... Read More

Friday, November 28, 2008

Can people please stop asking for a new engine?

Posted on November 28, 2008 at 04:08 PM.

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I figured what good is a blog without a controversial title...so here goes, the 'new engine' debate.

I've seen comments in this fashion posted probably thousands of times in the Madden forums:

"Madden is never going to be any good until they scrap their current engine and make a new one".

First, what is an engine?
I've asked this of the community before...what they ... Read More

Monday, November 10, 2008

New Xbox Experience

Posted on November 10, 2008 at 10:23 PM.

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I was lucky enough today to get an early look at the Xbox experience on my dev kit at work. I am very stoked to get this at home! I've included a screenshot for your reference:

(That's not me as an avatar btw - I tried to make it look a guy I used to work with).

We're really curious what kind of stuff we'll be able to provide (in terms of art) for that avatar - i.e. can we provide NFL jerseys or helmets? Not sure. What we're ... Read More