Sentences with phrase «as narrative design»

Being able to talk directly with the denizens of this underwater horror is probably Simon's greatest strength as far as narrative design.

Not exact matches

Outfitting their teams, as well as those of sales, service, and support, with specifically designed customer, end - user, and buyer personas culled from the persona - based narrative to ensure customer understanding is the focal point.

In a narrative account, the historian offers events in a sequence designed to evoke in the reader's imagination the contrasting elements and potential configurations discussed above, with the expectation that the reader will hold them together in an emerging synthesis as the story progresses.

We should begin to see at what point the notion of God's design — as may be suggested in different ways in each instance, it is true, by narrative, prophetic, and prescriptive discourse — is removed from any transcription in terms of a plan or program; in short, of finality and teleology.

The Constitution serves as the premise for a narrative rather than as the design for a monument or a plan for an invasion.

Productive third - party involvement designed to alter the confrontational foreign policy narrative as well as a structural environment that allows enough leverage for domestic decision makers (elected civilian leadership in Pakistan's case) to implement and enforce new policies are also imperative for change to happen.

Similar banalities abound in what is a rushed narrative cynically designed as a personal bailout.

Impressive visuals and great production design are unfortunately overshadowed by a convoluted plot that struggles to depict its story - a narrative that starts strong but deteriorates as it attempts to balance too many emotional stakes for its own good while including one (or two) too many scenes that unintentionally call attention to itself.

Self - proclaimed narrative - design master David Cage makes one of the first attempts in mainstream contemporary gaming to use children to pull on parental heart - strings — in Cage's Heavy Rain, any parent's worst nightmare is realised as a son goes missing.

While there were some entertaining moments and the mission worked as a tutorial level, its level design felt inspired by the classic capture the flag multiplayer mode, only more linear, against AI and with an added narrative.

Program Description: Designed to support distinctive new voices in world cinema working in both fiction narrative and documentary, the Open Borders Fellowship includes a development grant as well as a trip to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to receive the award and attend a curated slate of industry meetings, networking opportunities, panels, and screenings.

The design craft on display is as swoon inducing as the narrative.

No adaptation this year is as dependent on matters of location and production design as John Hillcoat's take on Cormac McCarthy's «The Road,» a novel in which landscape is the narrative's dominant antagonist.

The often impossibly tedious narrative is compounded by stilted dialogue that rarely sounds authentic or even plausible (ie it's as if everything's been translated into English directly from another language), while the total lack of tension ensures that the movie's second half, ostensibly designed to operate as a suspenseful thriller, feels even more aimless and irrelevant than anything preceding it.

The first film at least bested the latter - day Bond movies in plastic spy - movie pleasures — spiffy gadgets, goofy bad guys, over-compensating production design — and had a more or less consistent narrative, with working - class English delinquent Gary «Eggsy» Unwin (Taron Egerton) learning to become an agent of Kingsman, a shadowy «independent» intelligence agency disguised as a Savile Row tailor shop, under the tutelage of gentleman spy Harry Hart (Colin Firth).

Instead, it is the most sumptuous, classical star cross'd lovers romance — a «Juliet and Juliet» story — in which the central love affair is presented just as legitimately as those that dotted the Hollywood films of the Golden Era (films whose narratives French film theorist Raymond Bellour memorably likened to machines designed to produce heterosexual couples).

There is no such thing as a stock narrative to have on file, each appeal is unique and designed to meet the need of the grantor.

Differentiation: yellow = higher blue = middle purple = lower Resources provide opportunities to: - explore target audience for advertising campaigns - explore existing advertising campaigns - explore the use of persuasive language - explore the use of presentational features - analyse the effectiveness of advertising campaigns - explore the narratives of advertising campaigns - design a new soft drink and develop the advertising production plan - peer and self assess - explore representation - justify own design choices These resources could also be useful as part of an enrichment day / activity.

Educators can use Paul Salopek's Out of Eden Walk as a teaching tool by exposing classrooms to the the project and having students design and implement a narrative walk of their own.

The website is designed to teach students how to critique and construct historical narratives and read primary sources as detectives would, and it features four historical topics for investigation.

DMG: All the time I've been making digital comics as a practitioner, I've also been a lecturer at a university, mostly teaching practice, also teaching narrative technology use on a games design course, and interactive media course at the University of Hertfordshire.

This ongoing series of essays on the craft of writing will include all topics related to writing fiction, including: The Basics Plot & Structure Voice Theme POV Characterization Dialogue Narrative Creating a bond with your reader Pacing Advanced writing and plotting techniques Writer's block Marketing Branding Publishing Self - publishing Healthy habits Bad habits The Writer's Life eBook formatting Paperback formatting Amazon keywords Writing blurbs and descriptions Cover design & layout Productivity The Classics Short stories Poetry The Writing Process Show don't Tell Self - editing Proofreading Building a solid career Targeting a specific genre Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Sharpening your writing skills Making every word count Deadlines Putting together an Anthology Working with other artists Collaborating Grammar Punctuation Writing for a career Treating it as a business Running a small press Financing your career Keeping track of your royalties Staying motivated Writing movies Writing comics Writing games Building a fan - base Online presence Newsletters Podcasting Author interviews Media appearances Websites Blogging And so much more... Are you ready to be called an author?

But the format was also designed to be easily extendable with HTML5, so as part of the project we created some hypercomics with multiple pathways through the narrative and one comic that used the «tilt» feature of the iPad as part of its navigation process.

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey: For students from an interactive media design background I've run hypercomic projects as a way to develop their understanding of interactive narratives and push their skills in terms of software and visual design.

Interactive narrative type stuff, and I'd done an undergrad in that kind of thing, multimedia design, animation type stuff as well.

Ubisoft has sent out the third dev diary for Prince of Persia today, showing producer Ben Mattes, level designer Michael McIntyre and narrative director Andrew Walsh — who all look like they could sleep for roughly a week — talking about the game's illustrative art design, the environments, and what they see Prince of Persia as.

Its gameplay, a blend of Metroidvania and point and click adventure, as well as its narrative, are designed to make the player reflect on these feelings.

This game is designed as a narrative investigation where you must piece together elements from the different applications, messages and pictures to progress.

As haunting as the narrative can be at times, the sound design showcased in Layers of Fear is what really takes the atmosphere of the game to a whole new leveAs haunting as the narrative can be at times, the sound design showcased in Layers of Fear is what really takes the atmosphere of the game to a whole new leveas the narrative can be at times, the sound design showcased in Layers of Fear is what really takes the atmosphere of the game to a whole new level.

Perhaps, as this genre continues to evolve, we will see a shift in the design process, where the narrative more directly revolves around the player, incorporating others in the same space — but it's vital that the connection between game and player, built so steadfastly on loneliness, isn't compromised.

Nonetheless, I shall defend Silent Hill 2 as one of the few times that commercial videogames have dared to push into artistic directions, and I still cite it as a triumph of narrative design within an industry that seldom achieves anything memorable in this space.

He inched his way into level and narrative design over time after joining as a gameplay scripter.

The surprise element of The Orange Box, it swiftly outshone its companions to become the best thing about that bundle, boasting a narrative as clever as its puzzle design.

A relatively simple game, but an extremely engrossing and unique narrative as well as some delicate but distinctive twists on gameplay and visual design made for a wonderful experience.

It is, in fact, the same problem as designing Extreme Pong: that in handing over drama management to an invisible algorithm, the player has no way to know his actions are driving the story and the dynamic narrative becomes indistinguishable from an authored one - and likely not as good.

The selection of titles for the Festival aims to affirm the status of video games as culture, and as a design object, showing the state of the art in narrative, experimental and political games.

Established in 1999 as the world's first Games Design & Narrative Consultancy, International Hobo (or ihobo, for short) is a team of experts filling the roles of game designer, narrative designer, and scriNarrative Consultancy, International Hobo (or ihobo, for short) is a team of experts filling the roles of game designer, narrative designer, and scrinarrative designer, and scriptwriter.

Part 9 of a continuing series, where I interview members of the now - defunct but highly influential Looking Glass Studios (1990 - 2000), which wrote the book on 3D first - person narrative game design throughout the 90s, in such games as Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Thief.

INSIDE's dark colour palate and subtle sound design powers the game forwards and the lack of narrative means that as a player you must map out the story based on the boy's journey.

Moreover, the narrative unfolds via half - baked, hand - drawn scribblings designed to look like an artsy comic book — but which come off as nothing more than cost - cutting shortcuts.

With this background he brings to his role as Art Director, Designer and Programmer at Sumergame.com his special interest in narrative design, game mechanics and board games.

Dives deep into things such as systems design, narrative design and his ultimate mission of recreating the golden age of late 90s Squaresoft.

Not only was it the world's first complete 3D RTS, but it also introduced concepts never before seen in RTS gaming — such as an epic overarching narrative, stunning graphics and sound design that utilized a specially created sound engine.

This means that instead of a direct narrative, Dark Souls 2 treats the story as an afterthought to staying alive, something that just adds to the games confusion by design motif.

At release, the Max Payne 3 PC games received highly positive reactions from critics, with praise mainly directed at its narrative, atmosphere, attention to detail & action, though some of the criticism was aimed at the change in the style from its predecessors, as well as its linear design & depiction of São Paulo.

The term «Walking Simulator» is often used as a pejorative to dismiss narrative - based adventure games that are often light on gameplay elements, despite being primarily designed to deliver an engaging narrative experience.

Whilst there are no words or even any verbal narrative to go on, the pictures shown give a clear indication as to what's going on and are designed in a unique art style that's fitting to the game overall.

The three - character approach doesn't bring any sort of interesting narrative design as was in GTAV, it just mostly swaps you between different cars as the story dictates.

Featuring the design team behind Tyranny (Brian Heins / Project Director, Matt MacLean / Lead Narrative Designer, Megan Starks / Narrative Designer) as well as Josh Sawyer (Design Director, Obsidian Entertainment), learn how our designers choose how to provideo agency to the player while telling interesting stories using the characters and plots we have crdesign team behind Tyranny (Brian Heins / Project Director, Matt MacLean / Lead Narrative Designer, Megan Starks / Narrative Designer) as well as Josh Sawyer (Design Director, Obsidian Entertainment), learn how our designers choose how to provideo agency to the player while telling interesting stories using the characters and plots we have crDesign Director, Obsidian Entertainment), learn how our designers choose how to provideo agency to the player while telling interesting stories using the characters and plots we have created.

Tacoma I know will stick with me for a very long time, much like Gone Home did, thanks to its well - designed space station, narrative, and characters that I felt like I got to know by the end of the game, cheering them on as they faced the perils of life in space and the limited possibilities when issues arise.