One of the two co-founders of Frictional Games where I mostly deal with programming, design and making sure artist do what they are supposed to. I have been creating mostly horror related games for over 10 years now and am really interesting in how to evoke emotions in players. Frictional Game's most recent project was "Amnesia: The Dark Descent". We are currently working as producers for "Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs" and a yet unannounced horrorish project.
The current usage of words such as narrative, story and immersion in game design is quite messy. This blog post is an attempt at making the terms and definitions clearer and making communication about interactive storytelling easier and more useful.
It has now passed two years since Frictional Games released of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. This post will go through some thoughts on sales, piracy, modding and the future of the company.
It seems to be believed that trial and error mechanics are needed in order to add drama, tension and make the player's actions count.I think this position is wrong and extremely hurtful. In this post I will explain why.
Great to see someone else writing about this. I gave a talk at this year 's GDC on the same topic that much of the game happen in the player 's mind , but from a different perspective. r n r nScript here if you are interested: r nhttp://frictionalgames.blogspot.se/2013/04/gdc-2013-talk.html
Great to see somebody else writing about this. I think this is a fascinating subject and you bring up some good points. As I have not really seen anything written about this yours is the first from another dev I can recall seeing , I wonder how much it is ...
Some thoughts that I might just drop here: r n r n1 The most important thing to consider in these sort situations is what is the intention . Is it to convey story Is it in order to show the suffering of the people Is it just to have some ...
I am happy with not having any direct HUD for Amnesia. But perhaps one could have used something and skipped the inventory screen. The lack of HUD and moving stuff to the a menu screen has deep roots in horror going all the way back to Alone in the Dark, ...
Thanks for replying r n r n- But I 'm getting a whiff of the go-anywhere-and-do-anything fantasy here, and that r n r noh definitively not I am all for a very small set of actions and for a very straightforward experience. The problem today is not that we can ...
Heard tons of good stuff about the Dark Eye, but unfortunately not played it myself. Is it possible to get it working on modern computers Also want to say that it is fun to see people that have done these kind of projects getting involved in the game's discussion again ...
