Games like Dwarf Fortress, Prison Architect, and SimCity promise you a rich, simulated world where stories can come to life. But is this dream real? And if not, how can we save it?
The concept of narrative is not absolute. It is merely a label for a cluster of emotional triggers which games happen to share with certain traditional media.
A way to measure the depth of games: Answer this question: How much can a player theoretically improve their skill at this game before there is no way to get better?
I don’t like lugging around the cultural legacy of Space Invaders whenever I try to explain to laypeople exactly what I’ve chosen to spend my life creating.
Forget about money for a second and focus on the physical reality. r n r nUsed game trading is a massively negative-sum economic activity. All those trading shops have to be built and staffed. People have to travel there and back. People have to spend mental effort to hunt around ...
Why, thank you very much r n r nThink before we can solve any of these problems we need a clear problem statement. Which means we need to ensure that there is a problem at all with players having limited/obscure/poorly-defined influence over the system. What if it is okay for ...
Huh. Interesting analysis. Interesting to see that Muslims are overrepresented in games. I suppose it makes sense I think I read somewhere that American Muslims are better-educated and more prosocial than the general population anyway. r n r nIt 's too bad there aren 't more conservative voices in the ...
Indeed I think I saw that Blow/Northway talk a long time ago. Those guys are sharp. I 'll have to check out yours. r n r nI 've also been wandering the foggy valleys of despair with you, and like you, I feel I may have finally mounted a good-sized ...
I was sad, then I heard they 're getting that logo. I mean look at that logo. It 's the most awesome logo I 've ever seen. Totally worth it. r n r n I am kidding, to be clear
