The Promise of Adventure
The second half of this article was previously posted in the forum under the name The promise of freedom in story games with over 100 comments (from...
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Embodied manipulation: a control scheme for immersive sim gameplay
I love the controls in the original 1996 Tomb Raider. It feels like I'm touching the world. Holding down the keys for holding objects or holding on...
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Traversal freedom
The world can be linear or open. The environment can be hand-crafted or procedural. But more important is the requirements of the story structure. Is...
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Health in games
The concept of health points comes from old tabletop games such as Dungeons and Dragons. It's a simple abstraction of the real world complexities....
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Systemic story game development 2021
Welcome to Adventure alpha zero 2021.I have been thinking about this for 30 years. Especially the last two years. I have tried to find the complete...
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NetHack
It has been 30 years and there are still no game that has managed to surpass NetHack.I first played NetHack on my Amiga 500 around year 1992. It was...
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