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Creation / Notgames design / Re: Unconventional is depressing?
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on: February 22, 2013, 09:27:17 PM
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But it's a bit like xenophobia, isn't it? The unknown instills fear boy, you say so It took me more than 10 years to watch L'annee derriere a Marienbad... and it is now my favourite film of all time. New ideas take time. And each generation needs time to get used to new ideas... it takes time. Slow but steady work will do the trick
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Creation / From the ridiculous to the sublime / Re: Are the haters of Bientôt l'été right?
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on: February 14, 2013, 09:27:40 PM
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I dislike modernism You mean you do not like the works of Francis Bacon, John Cage, Bunuel, Picasso, Greenaway, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Goddard, Oskar Fischinger, Strawinski, Duchamp etc...? I am not that deep into art theory. I like 20ths century art more than the art from the 19th century (for example). On the other hand I know what you mean. I was recently in Amsterdam. The new museum for modern art opened (the bathtub). I could not bring myself to pay 17€ for modern, exhibited art. I took a glance at the catalog and it was quite boring. I would not put all contempory artists in one corner. Also, I still do not know what modernism is supposed to mean. Stalin and Hitler were "great" connoisseurs de l'art. They knew exactly what was good art and what was bad art and acted accordingly. I would not want to put myself in those shoes. cheerio, p.s. sorry for side-tracking the discussion
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General / Check this out! / Re: Confusing preview of Bientôt l'été
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on: November 27, 2012, 08:23:39 PM
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the clumsy but useful tag "experiential" what's clumsy about the experiential tag? O would call it a precise tag... in a medium that has never even attempted to tickle the intellect This is plain ignorant. There are many attempts that did speak to the intellect...
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General / Check this out! / Re: The Walking Dead
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on: November 23, 2012, 09:55:19 AM
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Yes, a very good game. I like it that they did not go "realistic" with their character models. It does not feel "uncanny" that way.
Things that did not work for me: When I was solving a puzzle and could not get to the solution immediately (1st episode)... there was a lot of going back and forth triggering the same dialog over and over. Then it felt very gamey, took me out completely. I am still in Episode 2, and I wonder if I will stuck somewhere...
When you are not stuck, then there is good pacing overall.
One issue I have is that I read maybe 80% of the comics, so it did not feel that fresh to me. Comparing to the comics there is more downtime where I walk from here to there etc...
An interesting task in Ep.2 was when I had to distribute five food rations to ten people. Who do you give something? Those decisions where really something different...
looking forward to play more...
cheerio
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General / Everything / Re: Narrative? Really?
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on: November 22, 2012, 10:13:11 AM
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But I think games are a wonderful medium for storytelling - as is film I agree to disagree I read a short story of Lovcraft this very week, which gave me the idea for a narrative experiment. (Hint: Steve Reich, Piano Phase.) I will start working, and let us see what we can do with narration (I hope it will be wonderful )
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General / Everything / Re: Narrative? Really?
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on: November 20, 2012, 03:59:17 PM
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Yes, the best medium for narration and writing is still the book. Also many get confused to use heavy narration/writing in a game, because they look at the movies at the wrong angle. I can't count how many movie critics spread the false assumptions that movies are a storytelling medium. Even most of hollywood directors believe that that is true. So my deepest wish is that game developers and filmmakers would give up storytelling. You can't beat Anna Karenina that way ... If I can have one more wish: game developers/designers should give up moviemaking, too! I make an example: Music does not need to tell a story, architecture, ballet, sculptures, paintings do not need to tell a story. I thought we were all clear about that... cheers George
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General / Check this out! / Re: "Why we need to kill gameplay to make better games"
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on: November 15, 2012, 10:59:07 PM
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If you want an experience to be remembered, you'd focus on non-gameplay. If you wanted to develop some skill, you'd focus on gameplay. That's not always a valid assumptions. I am an avid chess player (playing in a club). Chess is pure gameplay and I have very great memories of some matches I've won or lost. Also I have memories of my opponents, how they behaved, who they were etc... so it is one, complete experience. Chess is not an art form, but still... I had some great complete experiences with games, where mechanics and audio-visual experience came together like in Tetris, REZ, Every Extend Extra Extreme, Bangai-O (hm, all more or less abstract experiences). I would put them in the same category like a string quartet or a symphony (abstract music), opposed to opera etc... I think when gameplay, mechanics, and the audio-visual experience come together, that's a great experience to have. cheers
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General / Check this out! / Re: "Why we need to kill gameplay to make better games"
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on: November 09, 2012, 04:28:31 PM
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Saw this in the notgames tumbler. I first thought it was some random blogger. Then I saw that it was a dev, which felt extra coolt. But a dev that made Painkiller Hey, Painkiller is a pretty classic FPS. Story almost nonexistent (good!), because if I have to choose between a mediocre/rubbish story and no story, I prefer not to have a story... It was a pretty entertaining game. Strange and weird. I am interested if/what will come out of that corner of the industry. People grow up and suddenly they might realize, that they do not want to make FPS+1
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Creation / From the ridiculous to the sublime / Very vague idea for a boardgame
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on: November 05, 2012, 11:11:20 PM
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I am an avid chess player, but I wish to play a board game, where I only play 10 moves. 10 moves and the game is over. So that every move counts. 10 moves at most.
It should take at least 5 hours to complete a match.
It should have an abundance of rules and exceptions.
Maybe it should be only 5 turns.
Maybe (crazy I know) I make my turn you make your turn and then we discuss for the rest of that night who has won.
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