Showing posts with label open worlds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open worlds. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

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I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City . ...
Wednesday, May 5, 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...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Thick skin: complexion, realism, and labor in games

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In Dublin, I visited the  Lucian Freud Project at IMMA . If you're not familiar with painters (who is these days?) Lucian Freud is...
Friday, June 29, 2018

The Forgotten City (Skyrim mod) as dense quest

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This post kind of spoils (but not really) some of the Skyrim quest mod The Forgotten City . Bethesda open world RPG games have develope...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Mapping the sea floors of Subnautica

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This post spoils the core gameplay and player progression in Subnautica, but not the specific story nor scripted plot events. Subnautic...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The joy of learning how to freeze to death

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This post spoils some gameplay systems in The Long Dark . I still remember the first time I played Minecraft, back before the quests an...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Open world level design: spatial composition and flow in Breath of the Wild

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So, like much of game dev Twitter, I too saw Matt Walker's Twitter thread that summarized a CEDEC 2017 talk on how Nintendo built th...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Go West young Slime Rancher, and grow up with the country

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This post spoils some mechanics and game systems in Slime Rancher. One in-game day in Slime Rancher , I found a rare " quantum slim...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Toward an honesty of pixels: on Final Fantasy 12 HD and Quake 3 Arena

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combined screenshots from Final Fantasy 12 (PS2, 2006) and Final Fantasy 12 HD (PS4 Pro, 2017) You either love or you hate Final Fantasy...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Bleeding between alternate realities in Metal Gear Solid 5 and other open world games

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I was playing the open world stealth game  Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (2015) and I kept failing Mission 33 ("Subsistence: ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Queer Game Studies, "On FeministWhorePurna and the Ludo-material Politics of Gendered Damage Power-ups in Open-World RPG Video Games"

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For the upcoming book Queer Game Studies (2017), I contributed a chapter on the "FeministWhore" scandal in the game Dead Island...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

New years resolution, 2016: some more gay sex, and "Maven"

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@mooonmagic @mousefountain played Thief 4, thought "stealth is dead"; Invisible Inc, "stealth is real"; AssCreed Lon...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

That's why they call it the Diamond City Blues

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WARNING: This post "spoils" an early quest in Fallout 4 and a later quest in Fallout 3. The "Diamond City Blues" qu...