Tag: Beyond Good & Evil

Territorial Control.

Having previously examined the possibly meanings that can be drawn from logical exploration, in the form of resource cycles in BioShock and Beyond Good & Evil, I’ve decided to take a step back and look more closely at the concept of exploration in a territorial sense. What meaning can this form of exploration impart? I […]

Tags Beyond Good & Evil, BioShock, Game Design, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Combat Evolved, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Thief: The Dark Project

Exploring Meaning.

In order to consider and analyse the explorative form of games it is necessary to present the game mechanics, the logical game space, in some visual manner. The interconnected nature of objects and actions, nouns and verbs, within a game can make any attempt at a complete representation of the entire possibility space prohibitively complex; therefore some […]

Tags Beyond Good & Evil, BioShock, Game Criticism, Game Design, Game Mechanics, Game Theory