Pietro Polsinelli's Member Blogs
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This is a video interview done at Indiecade 2019 where Daniel Fonseca and Pietro Polsinelli talk about games as a maturing medium, narrative games, applied games, making bizarre football games, the death of anthropology. Roland Barthes, success...
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on Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:43:00 EDT
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Sports in videogames are represented either through simulators or as management games. We explore an alternative "anthropological" path using narrative and strategy to represent football's universe and its paradoxical epic.
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on Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:01:00 EST
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We present some concepts with which one can enrich the available toolset when writing and designing in-game dialogues, mostly inspired by comic design. In a linked video we also show the toolset in use.
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on Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:59:00 EDT
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Here are slides and a video from a live broadcast where I presented ways to do game design in Unity, providing context, sample code and references. I try to show how integrating coding and game design may lead to good quality game projects
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on Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:42:00 EST
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How I created a board game on the theme of platform cooperativism and its difficulties, as outlined by Trebor Scholz (so an "edu" board game).
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on Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:24:00 EDT
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Here is a curated set of good sources and tools on the theme of writing for games with narrative. A lot came out recently, in particular oriented towards tools and practices.
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on Tue, 30 May 2017 09:19:00 EDT
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In this post we discuss two themes: how to facilitate writing for games and how to design a dialogue user interface for games. We present examples from outside and inside videogames and some experiments we've curated.
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on Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:51:00 EST
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The learning process in games is rarely by their being explicitly set as a simulation. There is often indeed an underlying combinatorial model, but the game play experience is a learning experience in a loop of attempts, not a laboratory session.
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on Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:29:00 EST
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Here I draw attention to the game spaces that are “in-between” core game play: between fights, battles, attempts, in-level play. Dedicating game design work to such spaces opens up interesting scenarios.
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on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:26:00 EDT
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Gaining depth for your game by researching and refining the narrative universe. Details of my research on the football theme.
