Category: Games
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Following my presentation at GDC, someone asked me the very compelling question, ‘What is the difference between Intentionality and Strategy?’ I thought this was a great question, and I did not have a ready answer, though I promised to explore the problem and come up with one. It’s a difficult question, and I wrestled with…
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The last issue of The Escapist has a pretty good article by Will Hindmarch about enriching the immersive play experience through the use of NPC dialog. The games he draws on for his examples are Thief: The Dark Project (one of my all time favorite games) and my own last game, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.…
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I know I promised them within 48 hours, but 60 hours will have to do. Sorry for the short delay. I expect to get around to posting my overview of the conference in general later this week – maybe in multiple parts. A couple of additional things related to this presentation will come soon as…
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Finally someone has made a game that allows he player the skirt the edges of the fearsome Kuratowski theorem and open up some whoop-ass on K5 and K3,3 – two bosses that you normally would not want to mess with unless you have a Masters in Graph Theory. Actually – I find this little puzzle…
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I had the pleasure of going out to Sherbrooke University yesterday to give a presentation there as part of their Série ExperTIse hiver 2006. Due to relatively short notice and the fact that I was preparing and practicing my GDC 2006 presentation in the same window, I gave the presentation that I had previously done…






This is still an interesting read. But for me it was far simpler than this: The game’s narrative tries to…