- Thanks so much for this submission. I'm a New Englander, and I'll definitely look into this group.
- bmonkey325 344 days agoPlease report back on your findings. Inspiration to get people together post-pandemic is a good thing.
- Great idea. I discover a lot of interesting things by browsing tags of certain users I follow on pinboard. Something similar here would be useful, I think.
- As far as first-gen 90s FPSs go, Rise of the Triad is probably second only to Quake, in my book. It simply had more character than DOOM.
- From the article:
"Yeo is a graphic designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and through the 80s and 90s, he created the boldest, most unusual packaging in the game industry. While other game publishers were trying to get attention with flashy, colorful, in-your-face aesthetics, Yeo was deconstructing the idea of what a game box could be altogether. He made boxes shaped like pyramids and trapezoids, boxes that conveyed emotions and movement with their physical shape, designed to stop people in their tracks and get them to pick it up. And whether he intended it or not, his work landed him right in the middle of a battle for the future of retail space.
In this article, we’re going deep into the game packaging design work by Hock Wah Yeo, the developers who hired him, and the industry that could barely keep up."