Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Wider, spread out, less dense. Money sink.

Open World 52

Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain 52

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. It means a huge chunk of bespoke content won't be played much. You need to look for ways to stretch the content inexpensively. So yeah, copy-pasted enemy forts and bosses is not something people like.

Cutscenes 80

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 80

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. All the content in the game was just data in fields. On MOOs and LPMuds, you had a lower barrier for adding features, but you also had a higher barrier for “just making content.”

Sandbox 64

Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 64