Showing posts with label interface. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interface. Show all posts
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

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I'm playing a giant Skyrim "total conversion" mod called Enderal . It does a lot of interesting things but also less-than-good...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Notes on "Sparkling Dialogue", a great narrative design / game writing talk by Jon Ingold at AdventureX 2018

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My colleague Clara Fernandez-Vara pointed me towards this great game writing talk by Jon Ingold this year at AdventureX , an excellent ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Grinding as repetition as savefiles as insistence

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In "Portraits and Repetition", Gertrude Stein argues that repetition is better understood as "insistence": "....
Saturday, January 27, 2018

It's all about how you use it: on NSFWare, by Pierre Corbinais

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This post is SFW-ish (somewhat Safe For Work, depending on your workplace) Pierre Corbinais has a long history of making short poignant...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Nostrum design problems and world as interface

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I am currently trying to prototype some sort of social simulation in Nostrum , and I am currently facing three main design problems: fo...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Reading public Google Drive spreadsheets in Unity, without authentication

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I'm working on a project with a collaborator who doesn't use Unity and doesn't really have an interest in game development (g...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Nostrum update: now with a map!

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I added a map. This was the first version. Then I tweaked the colors a bit. And animated it so it flaps in the wind based on how fast you...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

"Press F to Intervene": a brief history of the Use Key Genre

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There are NO *detailed* spoilers for BioShock Infinite in this post, so relax. I try to speak in a really general / vague way about what h...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Notes on first person virtual reality / implementation in Unity.

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I've been implementing the Oculus Rift VR goggles into my first person projects, and the process has been... interesting. Valve...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

More talk, more rock: on algorithmic game narratives, speculative narrative design futures, and "Shakespeare."

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Last time, I wrote about procedural narrative in the context of "process intensity." Here, I expand more on designing the proce...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Deceptive epistemologies in strategy game interfaces, and a theory of strong vs. weak fallibility.

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When you play Command and Conquer or Starcraft, you're supposedly some anonymous commander at a console who can see everything and co...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Radiator Blog: Three Year Anniversary

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Wow, I've been blogging here for about 3 years now. This blog is now approaching the end of its toddler years. Much like last year , ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Talking about Convo.

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Figuring out how to talk about your game is part of designing your game -- so trying to explain Convo to various people has been extremely...