Warning: This is not a review.This is a critical look at the game itself, both design wise and from the perspective as a piece of art. Oh and another note, MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD. This is written with the idea that anyone who read this has played the game.
The story goes like this: As time went on at Creative Fluff and I was found to be the main contributor for the game design section I was eventually made into that section’s content editor. We were looking into how we could expand the examinations of games. The first point we looked to was how were we going to [...]
This here is a little interesting indie game that I came across a while ago. It’s not finished without any plans for a release date as of yet. So why show it to you? From what we’ve seen, the game does something very unusual in games. Like Portal and Fracture it looks into design space [...]
First of all I didn’t think this would last more than one article. It got kind of long so I split the original article into two. You can read part one here and part two here. Then Leipzig happened and certain announcements were made that seem to say exactly everything I had been looking for [...]
Despite the title, this article has nothing to do with religion. Faith is the main character in the upcoming parkour platformer from EA, Mirror’s Edge. Below you will find two images of her. The key is, the one on the left was an image by EA of what she will look like in the game, while the one on the right is a fan representation of the same character.
I talked about the role the metal band Metallica has with the rhythm games as they were releasing a big track pack that week. Now its another great High Voltage band’s turn in the spotlight.
AC/DC has long been wanted in the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but has only recently made the transition in [...]
This is a demo, but its short, really short. It’s only a little longer than Heavenly Sword’s demo. There is a lot to go over in the demo. I’ll start with the most touted part of the game, the new environment changing weaponry. The main question that has been raised is, can this mechanic sustain an entire game? The detractors say it’s a bit too gimmicky and only one tool, while other cite Portal as a game that did that sort of thing well.
I said previously that there is a debate going on between the gameplay elements of a game and the storytelling aspects. This of course is not an actual dehbate with words, but one expressed through the designers’ games. Last time I went through the extremes in the medium and then various techniques over the years [...]
Great news for PS3 users has been announced. Martijn Van der Meulen, a producer on Home, a project that will allow a free Second Life like environment for players to socialize in, told game journalists that it is 100% certain to be released before this calendar year is up. Van der [...]
In a recent set of articles I read a certain debate on video games came to mind; the debate of what video games are, as they are still trying to define themselves as a new medium. In simplistic terms the debate is story vs. gameplay. Are they just a new purely interactive medium with the [...]
