I decided to become an indie game developer after being inspired by the Japanese indie game scene during my internship in Japan. Now I'm making games with interactive stories.
Interactive Story Game Design: This time we talk about how foreshadowing in skill-based interactive story games can be related to the wind-up in punch-out.
Posted by Alfe Clemencio on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:29:00 EST in
Interactive Story Game Design: In order to slowly chip away at the excuses of why story can't mesh with games, I will give an easy method on how to let the player be clever and allow them to take a third option.
Interactive Story Game Design: Normally players don't really care about betrayal in terms of gameplay. Just do whatever the story tells you and you will win no matter what. When the player CAN do something about it with real choices, it gets complicated.
Interactive Story-Game Design: After self-publishing a game that gives players a very large influence on the story I reflect on how I actually did it with very little money. Still wondering why can't larger budgets can't do it.
So like... you can't do the merchandise thing to get people who spend more satisfied What about the persona 3/ persona 3 FES thing where you sell another version of the game later with double the content Early adopters think it is a fair price and late adopters think it's ...
Traditional media doesn't need to be about volume. Have you thought about merchandise for the bigger players That's where the bigger fans dole out more cash. Some of the business models you suggest rely on players continuing to play over time. How about the players that don't have that much ...
Why not just sell at Video game conventions Huge concentration of the market is there right. Not to mention you can get press if people find your game interesting enough.
What would be cool is if you have banners saying Used Games that support the makers in physical stores. Then publishers can give more promotional or rage swag as prizes to the stores that participate in this.
