XCOM: Enemy Unknown is an impressive re-imagining of the originally. This article details one of the more interesting mechanics the game employs to create tough decisions for the player with relatively simple mechanics.
I agree with you that the people that say 'a game must NOT have an easy mode ' are being idiotic. However, I would also state than anyone saying a game MUST have an easy, automatic mode is being equally idiotic. r n r nFrom the article headline 'What your ...
Nice article. r n r nOne thing I would mention and you might want to think about deals with your last definition: r n r nA game has explicit rules and goals, and is played with the primary purpose of learning. r n r nWhile I agree that much of ...
Interesting. Kind of stretching it on the analysis of Hotline Miami though. r n r n The colors are ... Miami. r n r nIts all those crazy colored Cuban stucco buildings. Look at GTA Vice City. Go to google image search and type in 'Miami '. r n r ...
I don 't really think a setting itself for a video game can be appropriate or inappropriate in general. Possibly a better question would be 'is a particular setting appropriate for a specific audience ' For example if your audience is young kids, then a strip club is not an ...
I might have missed it, but what is a 'hardcore gamer ' The article mentions it over and over, but never defines it. If you asked 100 people what 'hardcore gamer ' means you would probably get 100 different answers. r n r nAgain, my apologies if somewhere in the ...
1 r n r nGood post. I know very well the truth to much of it because I am one of those engineers that want to over-engineer. r n r nMy first inclination to a solution tends to be vast, complicated systems, with many moving parts. And then I have ...
