Gamasutra expert blogs: From minimaps to a story design challenge

[In highlights from Gamasutra's Expert Blogs, industry notables write about diverse topics, including the results from a story design challenge for building a world, examining minimap design, and more.] In our weekly Best of Expert Blogs column, we showcase notable pieces of writing from members of the game development community who maintain Expert Blogs on Gamasutra. Member Blogs -- also highlighted weekly -- can be maintained by any registered Gamasutra user, while the invitation-only Expert Blogs are written by development professionals with a wealth of experience to share. We hope that both sections can provide useful and interesting viewpoints on our industry. For more information about the blogs, check out the latest official posting guidelines. Here are the top blogs for the week: This Week's Standout Expert Blogs Operation: Eradicate financials three months in (Greg Holsclaw) Operation: Eradicate, has been in the AppStore a bit over three months, and I wanted to give a report of the ups and downs regarding the financial outlook of the game. Eradicate was a great game for us to create, laying a good foundation for our studio. Story design challenge #4: The results (Guy Hasson) Almost 20 people designed worlds for Guy Hasson's story design challenge. Here he shares the best ones. Survey: Talk about game development, help the MADE (Jay OToole ) Help the Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment by completing a survey. The survey is a part of Jay O'Toole's dissertation research on video game development. For each completed survey, he will make a $5 donation to the MADE. Minimap rotation (Radek Koncewicz) Rade Koncewicz offers a quick look at the pros and cons of rotating and static minimaps.