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How The Walking Dead uses big data to make life-or-death decisions
Telltale Games mines decision-making numbers to change the player experience and the narrative itself.
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Story War tests your ability to tell tales, not your strength
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton could have likely saved each other if they had been presented another path towards conflict resolution. What these men needed was a judge, to declare a winner and absolve their differences. What these men needed was Story War. Story War, a story-driven card game,
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Can games’ stories get out of the way already and let us play?
Masahiro Sakurai knows what he likes. The creator of Super Smash Bros. and the recent Kid Icarus: Uprising has an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink sort of style, packing his games with mechanics, extras, options, and more. So it’s interesting that an element many games revolve around–narrative–doesn’
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Assassin’s Creed 3 award for best writing highlights the problem of judging story in games.
Over the weekend, The Writers Guild of America, who you may remember as the labor union responsible for the Hollywood writers’ strike a few years ago, got together to hand out some avian-shaped trophies for best screenplays, and as always they were amenable enough to include screenplays for videogam
Dragon Age: Origins
Talking Thinking Believing
Dragon Age through words and deeds
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The Shadow and the Sorrow
Finishing Shadow of the Colossus teaches us why we should never have started.
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Every Choice Leads to Loss
Stephen Lavelle's games don't let you win—and that's the point. His rigged systems of loss reframe what games can say about control, grief, and the limits of choice.