Thanks Lee for a clear and useful article, and a good set of comments so far: always good to see r n r nLee, when I reached your comment about mobile and players going without the audio, I thought also about the importance of supporting players with different sensory or ...
That sounds as awful and disorienting as those t-shirts with blurred text on them. Seems to me that blur is used in media to direct viewers ' attention and give the impression of depth. Entirely appropriate to flat passive media like 2D film or imagery. Once you 're actively simulating ...
...gamers give it absolute authority... r n r nNo. Even accounting for hyperbole: No. I only trust game reviews expressed in words, not numbers. Takes a bit longer to read them, but the results are typically dependable. Assigning a number from 1-100 reads the same to me as a number ...
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Agreed about the hurdle of building up that game experience for use as vocabulary. But the idea of using those experiences as shorthand still has pull for me, not least because we 're already doing it. People speak derisively about game designs thrown around as Game X but with Feature ...
My first reaction was Ugh , but I think I like this idea. Like the stereotype of making someone chainsmoke a pack when you catch them smoking. Let the Everything is fine here crowd wallow in oversexualized malesness for a while and see how they feel. And if they think ...
