Don't know how much it fits into this discussion, but hey, I want to say it anyway: What I find to be truly evil in most social games is that you have to spend facebook money to skip fillers. I find it quite brutal that fillers are now consciously used ...
Hi Darren : I finally found the energy to read through your comment. I think one problem that we face in our conversation is that I address things step by step, meaning I do not look at all aspects at once, therefore you probably do not find everything you'd like ...
I don't respect academics isn't a good approach at all. It's just the same as when some academics say I don't respect the culture or game industry. It tries to can things, and thus kill them ending anything new that breaks the rules . I think someone's occupation rather tells ...
This is a good point. Of course there are many stories whose plot structures do not follow the Aristotelean tradition. This article assumes that you want to solve design problems in a project that approaches the end product from the traditional perspective in dramaturgy. But there are other traditions of ...
You call it a good game, when you do not realize how you were put through a story. Ludonarrative dissonance is basically just another name for bad game design. I don't see it as a story vs gameplay problem. I see it as designers or writers having problems in using ...
It appears as though there is a correlation between the degree to which a game is spatially open and the type of story experience that the game can provide for its players. It really depends on how you maintain necessity in the game. Speaking in terms of dramaturgy, necessity is ...
