I totally agree with your coice for Blossom. It's one of the most innovative and different apps in the bunch. Sadly most of the others are just slightly different takes on known things or really obvious things. Here's hoping that "My Dream App 2" will have more creative and innovative entries, right from the beginning.
the young ones in here probably won't remember, but there was a time when tv actually was watchable. meaning, the show/film was rarely interrupted by short commercial breaks. what do we have today? flying saucers and dinosaurs walking across the screen, advertising some feature film two month away, blatantly overlaid over the running movie. today the commercials are interrupted by the tv-shows!
as mentioned by others, in some genres it's ok, maybe even welcome (sports). but not when they're trying to sell an immersive experience. those mad business people will always up the ante. if they see they can pull off one single advertising line in a game, and it doesn't affect sales, they'll put three lines in the next game, and so forth. and before we have all played through NSMB (which is really, really easy), we'll be wielding a bbq-double-whopper-sword-of-flame in our next RPG.
i can only encourage everybody to step up to that kind of BS in games.
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Aug 16th 2006 10:59AM (Joystiq)as mentioned by others, in some genres it's ok, maybe even welcome (sports). but not when they're trying to sell an immersive experience.
those mad business people will always up the ante. if they see they can pull off one single advertising line in a game, and it doesn't affect sales, they'll put three lines in the next game, and so forth. and before we have all played through NSMB (which is really, really easy), we'll be wielding a bbq-double-whopper-sword-of-flame in our next RPG.
i can only encourage everybody to step up to that kind of BS in games.