In April, the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment commissioned a Minecraft recreation of downtown Oakland, California. The results were exhibited to the public at the Oakland Museum of California, where visitors then interacted with the Oakland map.
Inorganic challenges can undermine other possible goals--narrative, atmospheric, social, etc. This post urges developers to reconsider the merit of focusing player interaction on the task of completing challenges--to allow play to occur "unchallenged."
"I was talking to a friend about us drawing video game levels when we were kids, and I recall thinking about an OCR project I had heard about recently. It just clicked. I’ve been building mobile apps for 5 years and instantly knew this could be done."
Multiplayer games are restricting trade with increasing frequency. This reduces the cost of economic management, but it also means you lose valuable information. It also creates an opportunity for a new revenue stream.
