Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Games 93

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Being able to build a plane and cruise over the enormous landscape is a hoot. It means a huge chunk of bespoke content won't be played much. You need to look for ways to stretch the content inexpensively. Playing with terrain is a relatively inexpensive way to stretch content, since you have to make terrain anyway.

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Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 81

Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Fantasy Puzzle Content Cutscenes 52

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. There were creative worlds such as MOOs where anyone could build anything. All the content in the game was just data in fields. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling.

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Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 64

Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

Indeed, one of the main starting points for the design was that it wouldn’t be a puzzle, standing in contrast to the highly puzzle-like nature of Advance Wars. In any case, when humans get involved, they build culture. In general though, I guess a thing with games is that they really need context.

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Games Puzzle Graphics Cutscenes 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

none of Dishonored's morality system and I think this is good, the "stealth puzzle = humane cage free assassination" philosophy has aged poorly imo 69% less stealth. Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. TUTORIAL The tutorial happens across 3 in-game loops.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52