"To engage the player" means to create experiences or interactions that capture and maintain the player's interest, attention, and involvement while playing a game or participating in an activity.
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Depending on the game, action adventure games
engage players in experimentation, problem solving, strategic thinking, teamwork, and even creativity.
This creates a user experience packed full of Epic Meaning which
engages players with the game and its outcome.
Valve has a really good model
of engaging players and community in the game through in - game items and contests where people create merchandise.
With most games heading online these days, there's a lack of good old - fashioned party games that'll
engage players for a while.
This is not a challenging game but the
story engages the player, rather than just a few lines of dialogue here and there followed by lots of searching.
The black and white color palette and simple character designs are easy on the eyes but do little to
truly engage the player.
It
effectively engages players with not just the story but also to find out how these two separate characters in separate worlds have to do with each other.
We are committed to the development of robust online environments for responsive and
engaging player versus player gameplay.
Neither a sequel nor an adaptation, it has the monumental task of creating and
then engaging players in a wholly original universe.
Inspired by huge stories like Game Of Thrones or The Black Company, Banner Saga is intended to
engage players emotionally by allowing them to build relationships with the game's characters and shape the outcome of the story through a deep array...
«We strongly believe that active community is the key to the whole multiplayer experience, which can be achieved
by engaging players through both in - game activities as well as strong social media integration.»
An intricate story
engages players as they solve an interdimensional mystery with a diverse cast of characters
Team ICO's famed game designer Fumito Ueda is known for creating the most engaging, emotional fantasy worlds ever committed to code, his work on Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and the upcoming The Last Guardian
engaging players on a deeply personal level.
Geo - Wiki has also recently released a new game for tablets and Facebook, Landspotting,
which engages players in a social network while producing a large amount of data.
As part of Q1 2017 Craig looks at the end of Destiny, a game that should be drawing to close after two years of
engaging players who now await its sequel
With an interactive environment that
engages the player at every step, Skyworld is the stuff of every strategy fan's wildest dreams.
Compound this with the fact that the campaign in the game is very short and what you have is a big chunk of the potential of Second Son to
engage players completely thrown away.
Obduction manages to capture what made Myst and Riven such great adventure games with an amazing atmosphere, mysterious story and challenging puzzles that
engage players from the very beginning.
Today the game has taken the crown worn by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and
engaged players across all the major gaming platforms and even mobile devices.
On mobile, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes continues to tap into the passionate Star Wars fan base, maintaining one of the most
engaged player communities across our entire network.
By incorporating a cerebral approach,
Kerr engaged his players» minds, helping them both to see the big picture and think through the execution of their strategy.
Brave Earth: Prologue's beautiful, hand crafted levels are filled with meticulously placed challenges, aiming to
engage players more than frustrate them.
For 3D Zelda fans, the narratologist argument fits as while the game should have good mechanics, each Zelda game should have a clear narrative which
engages players alongside the raw mechanics of swinging your sword and solving puzzles.
However, The Order fails to
consistently engage the player in the intricacies of its lore because the game starts off with very little explanation about some sort of rebel outfit.
Knight Terrors goes straight for the jugular,
engaging players immediately with simple two - button controls, retina - searing sprite graphics and frantic neo-classical chiptunes.
Dated in some respects, polished and refined to a bright sheen in others, Wonderboy still manages to
engage the player thanks to a solid foundational core of simplistic but challenging combat, and a vast landscape to explore.
Meaningful difficulty, in which successes are owned and failures chastise rather than annoy, would more
deeply engage the player, making her responsible, necessary, worthy of the legend.
This
setup engages players in the story and parallels the increasing amount of unlockable weapons, actions, vehicles and gadgets.
â $ œWe wanted to create a game that heightened the tension and
engaged players â $» and the spectators â $» in a new way, â $ said Simon Darveau, the cofounder of Scavengers Studio, in a statement.
Alien
Spidy engages players to step into the web of an intelligent alien spider whose space ship has crash landed on Earth.
«And these aren't dormant players; these are
highly engaged players in Hitman,» said Hakan Abrak, IO Interactive CEO.
Surface the most
engaging player stats from your game directly on Windows 10 and build powerful companion experiences through the Real - Time Activity service.
Perhaps it's the art style is a bit too plain and lacking points of interest in races to
fully engage players to the degree that Happy Badger Studio would like, but at least it's helped by a seriously chill electronic soundtrack that pulses and pumps as you drive around Dirahl.