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Fiction Game Culture Game Design

Love.

“What happened to that nice young girl you brought home last year..?” “She was not a young girl mother, she was only two years younger than me.” “And you’re still my little girl. Now don’t avoid the question. She was lovely and she had a thing for you anyone could see that.” “… It wasn’t […]

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Narrative Design

Living with your mistakes.

Structurally Mass Effect 2 is built around the concept of recruiting a team to participate in a ‘suicide mission’. Each new character recruited has their own  specific quest line, a part of their lives they feel compelled to resolve before committing fully to a task that may lead to their own demise. These loyalty quests […]

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Game Design Game Mechanics

Meaningful Actions.

I like Chess, I would even go as far as to say I think it is a mechanically perfect game. The strength of Chess is that there are no redundant actions, there are no actions without consequences. Achieving a checkmate is not only dependant on the final move but on every preceding move, right back to […]

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Game Design

A measure of morality.

Apparently I’m a nice guy. At least that’s what my trusty Pip-Boy 3000 (Model A) tells me. I’m glad it does this because I probably wouldn’t have known otherwise, what with people commenting on how nice a person I am or how much of a “goody two shoes” I’ve been. Fallout 3 is giving me a curious sense […]