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Make A Game

At one point Chris Jones Gaming was considering making a game. This was about 15 years ago when we were modifying Star Trek games.

It hasn’t happened, but who is to say it won’t happen. If we were to do that, here’s a bit of what’s involved.

Making a science fiction game involves a lot of stuff, as you might know, including:

  1. Concept development: Developing the game concept, which involves creating the storyline, characters and their interaction with each other, and the setting. This is the foundation upon which the game will be built, where it starts.
  2. Game engine selection: The game engine is the software framework that is used to create the game. Popular game engines used for science fiction games include Unreal Engine, Unity, and CryEngine.
  3. Art and design: Once the game...
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Blaseball’s Boom

Musicals and Music video, fan animations and artwork…. for a fantasy baseball browser game?

It’s indeed the case!

Blaseball is an absurdist online baseball game that was split into “seasons” (a la Apex Legends) with a rulebook with chunks that are redacted for the player. There’s a shop with in-game items purchased with in-game money won by backing teams, similar to various irl fantasy leagues.

The trick with this game is the unusual stats, the ability for you (as a player) to vote on actions of the teams or rules of the game, and “blessings” (random powerups) get randomly assigned to the blaseball players on the teams, like “performance enhancing demons” and “bloodlust”.

The trick is both in choice making, and knowing the players enough to decide which teams to bet on.

For fans, the joy i...

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Passionate about Gaming and want a place to write?

Chris Jones Gaming

I Love Gaming! I Love E3, Gamescom, and anything related to new games and the industry as a whole. I Love reporting on games and hearing about them. Alas, I do not have time to pursue that passion as my life has taken a different turn. Chris Jones Gaming came into fame when we had a team modifying Star Trek: Legacy. I will not ever shut down Chris Jones Gaming – and on that note I am making the following offer:

I want to give someone FULL CONTROL over this website with regard to gaming news and reviews. No Gambling sites, lol. Seriously – If you are passionate about the gaming industry and want to write reviews, talk about new releases, or ANYTHING related to the video game industry for any Platform – please call me 518-223-6044 or email chrisjones@chrisjonesgaming.net.

I am very serious a...

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Game News Reviews Concepts Lifestyle

Game News, Reviews, Concepts, and Lifestyle.

THIS IS CHRIS JONES GAMING

GAME NEWS, REVIEWS, CONCEPTS AND GAMING LIFESTYLE ARTICLES

ONE MAN BAND!

As of this article, April 15, 2018, I am a one man band. You will like what you see, I dare say.
Chris Jones GamingĀ has been delivering results in various forms since we opened in 2006. Our goal is to provide both a superior customer experience and tremendous value for our visitors. Back in the day we were high on game modifications.

Game News – About

Chris Jones Gaming began in late 2006, when some extremely talented Internet friends and myself began construction of a major Science Fiction Game Modification. That Game Modification garnered tens of thousands of downloads, and we were onĀ  ‘chrisjonesgaming dot net’ at the time...

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