Sentences with phrase «fictional world»

While virtual reality has only been a thing — at least in name — since the 1980s, people have been dreaming of life in fictional worlds for thousands of years.

You can even create fictional worlds filled with interesting characters to give them a good dose of entertainment.

Each map in campaign mode is comprised of fictional worlds with helpful areas that, if controlled, give you advantages in battle.

I've developed a large fictional world for my writing, with hundreds of names of people, societies, countries, groups, religions, gods, etc..

When all these elements combined, they really did create the sensation of being inside a fully realized fictional world shaped by my actions.

I think this is a great time to introduce readers to fresh and new fictional worlds.

If I had to pick a favorite fictional world from this generation Dark Souls world would be very near the top.

I became an instant fan of her talent for drawing the reader into her rich fictional world.

This is a secondary imagined world, usually isolated from the main fictional world, in which communications between the player and the game makers occur.

It is possible to imagine fictional worlds, even of the dark, twisted dystopian variety, where the oppression and exploitation of women is not framed as something expected and inevitable.

The game features a tap and swipe fast paced gameplay and a huge sense of humor, featuring funny cartoon military units set in a stunning fictional world.

A lot of people prefer playing open - worlds games as there's no better feeling then being completely free to do anything you want and explore every inch of a vast fictional world.

It's a perfect example of why fashion is so important when trying to create a believable fictional world.

Although it's famous for being the seed of one of pop culture's most fully realized fictional worlds, the film itself is remarkable for its economy.

Various elements of his real environment collide with fictional worlds of his mind.

Ian Cheng's live simulations transport viewers to immersive fictional worlds populated with characters and communities whose behaviors the artist can condition but not control.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Francis is also a voracious reader, spending most of his free time immersed on fictional worlds.

In her paintings Aerts builds fictional worlds inspired by the environments she grew up in.

Balliett has created an intriguing fictional world where patterns and coincidences deserve a second look, and happenstance can hold great meaning.

Like Iglesias's more recent large - scale installations, this early work conjures a theatrical environment, a dream - like fictional world within an existing space.

Greed Corp is an award winning, innovative turn - based strategy game, situated in a rich, fictional world inspired by the industrial revolutions and their destructive effects on the environment.

The island is a carefully considered fictional world described by Charles Avery in a multitude of different ways and nourished by philosophical reflection.

Not only did the game feature rock solid stealth mechanics, it also gave us a compelling fictional world in which to revel in.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Maybe the next book will finally be one of the many fictional worlds she has created...

It is organized as a story narrated in several episodes: fictional worlds sited in galleries, public spaces, unused buildings, and online, which draw from Liverpool's past, present and future.

As Dogtooth's carefully cultivated fictional world begins to unravel, the fallout accelerates too fast for anyone on screen to cope.

Previous games in the series applied the same open - world, first - person shooter formula to fictional worlds full of overblown stereotypes.

Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma in Italy, who is also exploring how the brain responds to works of art, finds the new link between real and fictional worlds exciting, but is skeptical of the distinction between literary and mainstream fiction.

Kidd and his adviser, social psychologist Emanuele Castano, suspected that the skills we use to navigate these ambiguous fictional worlds serve us well in real life.

Because the program's architecture allows users to contribute new objects, many community members have concocted add - ons that re-create fictional worlds from sci - fi lore: the planet Tatooine from Star Wars, for instance, and the space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

There was also an anime version of Escape from Earth being tossed around the idea factory, and Kurt Russell would've provided the voice of Snake, but this pales in comparison to a 100 episode television series, a live - action movie where Snake Plissken has to get out of Earth because it's going poorly, and a video game where we get to control one of the wackiest antiheroes in one of the wackiest fictional worlds.

Series creator Hideo Kojima has been making Metal Gear games with publisher Konami for close to 30 years, creating sequels and prequels that bounce back and forth between the future and the past of a labyrinthine fictional world of spies, cold wars and walking nuclear weapons bearing the series» name.

Can an interesting fictional world — or even an uninteresting one!

The story side of Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite stumbles in trying to achieve a semblance of order amidst the clashing of discordant fictional worlds, but the multiplayer action is just as intense and chaotic as it's ever been, with spectacular battles that are enjoyable no matter which side comes out on top.

Dense plots can often muddy what is going on as a writer or director tries to set up a complex fictional world while also introducing characters.

The Motherfucker keeps cheekily saying that he is the «first supervillain», thus mightily dissing all those supervillains who have come before him in their own fictional worlds, although he strikes a false note in claiming: «My superpower is that I am rich as shit,» when that has long been a very commonplace thing to say about Bruce Wayne.

Set inside the mind of 11 - year - old Riley, where anthropomorphized emotions Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust run the show and memories are downloaded to glowing orbs, the Pixar impresario has created a vivid fictional world that rivals WALL - E in its inventiveness and lush visual landscape.

One reality is made to spill into another, and some of the loveliest developments — the humanizing of a disgruntled baker (Lyle Lovett) who we've encountered mainly as the disembodied telephone voice of a crank caller, and a mix - up of snapshots between two clusters of characters at a Fotomat — can be described as exercises in dialectical relativity that come about when separate fictional worlds in the movie are briefly made to converge.

It's a brave new, almost science fictional world filling up with people like Bank — who betray the, um, pirate code of «guys that shook Sinatra's hand» and build fantastically alien - looking hotels and trust computers over people and can be wooed by gadgets like a fancy new cell phone.

We have traditionally done this by measuring whether we were able to affect test scores (beginning with a pre-test and concluding with a post-test), whether learners were happy with their learning experience (measured through smile sheets), and, in the ideal fictional world, whether our initiatives impacted business results.

Danny's fictional world blends so seamlessly with his day - to - day life that profound questions about what is real and what is not, what is possible and what is imagined begin to arise.

Amazon just announced a new program called Kindle Worlds that allows writers to sign up for no - mess licenses for established fictional worlds to self - publish stories in them.

A.C. Crispin will be missed for her vigilant devotion to sticking up for writers, her wonderful candor, her thoughtful and exciting writing, and most of all, for giving the fans of various fictional worlds sweet and unforgettable gifts.