Christian Philippe Guay is currently working as a Technical Game Designer at Gameloft Montreal since 2008. He studied video games and Taekwon-Do ITF very seriously for over 10 years. He was baffled to learn that the deeper we go into the experiences, the more everything starts to look alike, because they use the same mechanics with just different contexts (perceptible things). He considers that books give us valuable information about deeper layers of design, but that it can only be properly understood by experiencing it directly by looking at video games with the eyes of a highly skilled player.
He also believes in the existence of a potential unified theory of fun and that most of the knowledge that can help us to understand what makes video games fun is still held by very few individuals, but should be shared.
Arkham Asylum was an outstanding game, but still is superior to Arkham City on many levels. I would just say that Arkham City is a solid game, but somehow it suffers from its larger scale. The game doesn't take full advantage of the improved combat system, because Batman can just ...
'When the silver ball hits that last peg in Peggle there's practically a party, complete with music, fireworks and rainbows. Level up in Call of Duty's multiplayer, and you'll hear one of the most distinctively satisfying guitar riffs in modern video games. Those games are designed for pride, to give ...
You are taking it the wrong way. The story is amazing as long as it empowers the gameplay and useless if it limits it. It's perfect if you have a really good story as long as the gameplay truly benefits of it, that's all.
What really doesn't help the indie games section is that it is constantly flooded by awful games. There is no way that every gamer will try the trial of each game one by one to know which one is actually worth paying for. I recently bought The Fall of Gods. ...
@ Dan Eisenhower Agreed, but I'm sorry, my point was too vague. I was only pointing out that MW3 is going to be considered as a successful model for many highly ranked people in the business who look at the numbers and stupidly conclude that MW3 was actually a great ...
@ Dorica Prostel Only as expensive as the market allows... it's economics 101. Individual companies failing is all part of the way capitalism works... - - Dorica, They are not failing because of capitalism. Graphics are so high today that it requires way too much time and man power to ...
