Maybe part of the problem that mobile games pose to big publishers is that big publishers used to be able to have a lot of low quality, cheap-to-make licensed titles that would make them a lot of money so that they wouldn 't be in such dire straights if they ...
Well said. I always felt like the game design community needed to focus more on making newer and more interesting mechanics. To me mechanics are by far the most important part of making a game: they are what make games games and not just movies or virtual spaces. They are ...
I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. However I feel you forgot to mention the death/respawning system in the game. r n r nI played through the game on hard and felt that the game had a lot of very unsatisfying combat scenarios because of how the game was ...
This was a great write-up about my favorite game of 2012 : r n r nI think one more thing that Spelunky has going for it with its unfairness is how the amount of progress made in each run isn 't too big. A complete run-through of spelunky without dying ...
Fantastic article. You managed to define the concept of destiny and agency mechanics so well, something that for a long time has been really hard for me to properly articulate. Thanks for writing this
If you pretend Crysis 2 was called something else, then you could call it one of the better linear-ish shooters made in the last 5 years. Although the biggest problem with the game is that the AI really isn 't that good especially the aliens . I just replayed the ...
I think that over the years certain genres have emerged and evolved to fit the strengths of the platforms that they are on. For example: RTS games emerged to take advantage of mouse and keyboard controls. Platformers emerged to take advantage of the D-pad and later evolved to take advantage ...
I agree, Mark of the Ninja has a good skill system. Some of the new skills were really interesting and offered real play-style choices to the player that were unique and thoughtful different items. ability to hang guards, etc . Although I felt like most of the take-down skills were ...
Interesting read. I 've always looked it at like this: games are a catalyst for players to create their own stories within. All narrative that designers put into games are not actually part of the game part, they are just aesthetic rewards/reactions for players completing tasks. IE a player in ...
@Joseph: I would say that what makes the decisions in Mario interesting is that there are clearly good choices and bad choices to be made jumping on a turtle is good, walking into a turtle is bad . Whereas in Proteus there are no good or bad choices to make. ...
