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Game Design

Contextual Specification – Examples.

Through unintentional irony, L.B Jeffries has helped me prove my assertion that:  “Abstract concept can be powerful but are difficult to appreciate without specific examples.” I’d like to claim that I had intended for my previous post to be overly abstract so as to prove a point, but unfortunately it was merely the result of poor editing. […]

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Game Design

It all went horribly wrong…

Having just completed a mission for Nasreen I was heading to a distant safe house when my dune buggy was rammed. Jumping out I threw a Molotov at the pursuing vehicle. The Molotov hit the driver setting him on fire and killing him almost instantly. Ducking behind my dune buggy I drew my silenced MP-5 […]

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Game Design

Freedom?

I don’t play Grand Theft Auto IV anymore. I have neither reached the conclusion of Niko Bellic’s story, nor achieved anything approaching one hundred percent completion. I have ceased playing because I’ve found that for all this sand-box nature it is inherently devoid of freedom. I can murder a dozen people or more in the space […]

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Literature Narrative Design

A matter of character.

A cast from all walks of life: young and old; rich and poor; the law abiding, the lawless, and those somewhere in between; prostitutes, thieves, murderers and lawyers. Characters that are exaggerations yet still human and all the more memorable for it. Crime, violence and a think vein of social satire, not to mention racial controversy. I’m not actually talking […]