Haha!

I´m sorry, it´s not very obvious to many people. There´s a help menu if you press the "esc" button.
Anyway, you just have to synchronize the chain one by one, once the two first videos are in sync the next one will unlock. They are in sync when the movement between them flows seamlessly, it´s tricky at first but very satisfiying once you understand how it works. I hope you will give it a chance!

Well, the way I see it after studiying cinema is: "you should show wheneaver you can". Sometimes you can´t avoid telling to comunicate effectively some information to the audience, but if you can show it instead of telling it, it becomes much stronger. The best example is Hichcock´s first shot from "Rear Window" in which he introduces the character, setting and situation in just some seconds.

So I guess we should think "make the player do wheneaver you can", as it should be stronger both emotionally and dramatically forcing the player to do something rather than forcing him to watch it.

Oh I really wanted to play this too!

Strange as I had the chance to meet him briefly at GDC and he said he was really excited with how it was turning out. He seemed to say it honestly.

Will give it a go eventually to see for myself.

I found this Half-Life commentary very interesting. It has some really good points to think about, not just for the Half-Life series...

http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/?p=151

Quite an inspiring though, Michaël! We should stay positive.

By that same token there's also a problem somewhere when it´s obvious that everybody likes to see pretty pictures but not everybody turns to videogames to see them.

I can´t think of many games that offer pretty pictures actually, so yes, we have a responsability.

I always thought there´s a problem somewhere when it´s obvious that everybody likes to play but not everybody likes to play videogames.

Probably the best way to reach this audience is to simply keep doing games that challenge what games have been so far, and eventually our work will reach that public, no matter how. First we should care about doing a good work, I don´t think that so far there are enough good pieces of interactive art to make this audience believe in this medium.

EDIT: Oh, Thomas just said what I was writing!

Wow, this looks brilliant!

I´m too lazy to learn 3d modeling, I find it really tedious and counter intuitive. But this gives me hope!

Well, making games for non-gamers is surely awesome!
Because gamers already have lots of games to play but non-gamers don´t.

However my doubt here is: what is our purpose? Do we want to expand videogames as an expressive medium or expand videogames to a new audience? I´m not sure we can do both at the same time. We need a language to build literature. To expand it as a medium we need a richer language. By asuming concepts and schemes as the WASD controls as an alphabet we can go deeper and complexify the experience. What I mean is that we need a complex and evolved language to express ourselves fully. We cannot create meaningful and deep experiences with baby-talk.

And yes, the pain is that this restricts our work to the gaming audience. So, should we write for the ilustrated or teach those who cannot read? Is there a way to do both?

What bothers me the most about this debate is the idea of "fun". A Michael Haneke movie is as fun to me as a Tarantino movie. There´s even people who find mathematics to be fun!

I´ve been using Multimedia Fusion 2 for a year and it dosen´t have that magical feature of Click and Play you are talking about. However, I have strictly no programming knowledge and it allows me to make the games I want. It´s pretty visual, very intuitive, and can get powerful if you are skilled enough, as Nifflas proves. It could be better for sure, even more visual and intuitive, but they are getting there, Multimedia Fusion 3 is on the works so we´ll see. I would love if you could edit the code in real time like in Unity...

I always though all this "rocket jumping" mechanics were a bit wasted in these games. I imagined it could be a sort of sport or acrobatic spectacle. I´m glad to see it actually exists. Will there be one day a virtual circus?

An interactive film or an interactive book, I don´t know.
Probably not important what it is. It´s by Vincent Morriset and I find it really beautiful.

http://blabla.nfb.ca/

Amazing technology!

Makes me think of this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CCZIBDt1uM

Voxels seem like a very interesting technology. Who know what we´ll see next?

Hello Nuprahtor,

I´ve discovered your games some days ago and I really like the path you are exploring. I wanted to write about them here but it´s a nice surprise to see you here already.

Keep up the good work!