Jaunty Bear Games
JANUARY 31, 2023
Some key elements of game storytelling and narrative design include: Character development: Creating believable and relatable characters that players can connect with, and giving them well-defined personalities, goals, and motivations. The post Game storytelling and narrative design appeared first on Jaunty Bear Games.
The Bottom Feeder
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
In my last post about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Z:TotK for short), a very popular game, I suggested that people would be interested in thoughtful criticism of slightly older games, once the dust has settled and people had the chance to calmly reflect about them. Most people don't actually care about deep dives into game design.
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Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 7, 2023
This is one of those situations where simply putting it into a cutscene would easily cause a separation of the player from Kratos - it’s a reminder to the player that Kratos is someone who would have to do such a horrible thing, which serves as a bit of a shock. Build your content in a way that facilitates player activity, not passivity.
Radiator Blog
APRIL 1, 2022
Within broader game design culture, the theme also invokes an awkward aspect of cultural appropriation and reduction. If you build carefully, you might not even need any special monster closets at all. The textures are fine! The unmodded vanilla Quake "retro" constraint inconvenienced some of my fellow jammers.
Radiator Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
In the end the FOMO doesn't really matter (just like real-life) and fortunately the best part of the game is unmissable -- a strong sequence where someone suddenly turns against you. It takes good parts of other good games, and skilled talented people spent lots of time and money on it. The documentary process is unusual for games.
Rampant Games
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
So author Reki Kawahara drew on his familiarity with the games of the day and their systems to create what he thought would be a super-cool virtual reality game. Once consumer VR hit in 2015, we discovered a lot about VR game design. Cutscenes in an MMO? Are higher stakes good or bad? It really depends.
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 29, 2024
More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To Yet, because of such experiments, there are victims.”
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