Sentences with phrase «with episodic story»

Meanwhile Kevin Spacey returned with House of Cards on Netflix which makes me wonder why can't we get more games with episodic story - telling to equal The Walking Dead episodes?

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If Polyarc can follow through with their (apparent) plans for timely episodic installments to the world of Moss, and continue building on this foundation, this could be the start of a world you'll look forward to losing yourself in any time there's a new story to be told.

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated adaptation of Satrapi's graphic - novel autobiography about a young girl growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and Iran's war with Iraq, episodic stories give Western readers and many others a glimpse into a fascinating world during a tumultuous era, and the author's illustrations express the caricatured, exaggerated impressions of a young child.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

Crystal Liu, left, meets with a Advisor Greg Daniels at the Episodic Story Lab.

Working with accomplished showrunners, as well as non-writing creative producers and studio / network executives, the Fellows participate in one - on - one creative story meetings, pitching sessions, writers» rooms, and group conversations focusing on the key creative and tactical elements that are central to their success in episodic storytelling.

Fellows will work with an exciting group of creators, showrunners and episodic producers to develop their stories in an environment that encourages risk - taking and innovation.

Some individual moments in the episodic story — which mostly concerns itself with Wilson connecting with his ex-wife (Laura Dern) and the now - teenage daughter he never knew about — work, but there's little accumulation into anything with much impact.

An unusual, constantly surprising post-WWII odyssey, this film may feel a bit thin and episodic, but it tells an evocative story with darkly moving emotion.

Now, considering that novels tend to be divided into chapters, and that they take a while to read, they're the ideal form for a story with such an episodic structure and protracted time span.

Usually we'd say that Telltale Games, famed for The Walking Dead, Minecraft: Story Mode, Wolf Among Us, Batman and other series, was the king of episodic games, but IO Interactive has very much stolen that crown with its novel take on the Hitman franchise.

Developer Laser Guided Games and design studio Hollow Earth Inc. continue the episodic story campaign that adds new content to both single - and multiplayer modes of dark fantasy real - time strategy game (RTS) Golem Gates with Book II of The Harbinger's story of redemption, which unlocks on February 28, 2018.

The stories they will be starting out with will be relevant to the readership and episodic in nature.

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I have long believed that a shorter, episodic story, filled with cliffhangers, is perfect for the millennial generation of readers.

There's a great story attached to a mixture of point and click and QTE gameplay, but with the added options of either your Kinect or controller, and it all plays out in an episodic format that makes it feel like a cheesy but very Japanese Boston cop show.

Most recently, they have brought us downloadable episodic titles based on other franchises such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Borderlands, with a huge focus on story and characters.

Where the best of episodic games manage to make each chapter feel fulfilling on its own while still contributing to the overarching story, Bear With Me Episode One feels incomplete.

Telltale will be working in collaboration with leading developer Gearbox Software and publisher 2K to create an all - new story driven episodic game series that will explore and expand on the stories of existing and new characters from the world of Borderland's Pandora.

This concept, along with the episodic, chapter - based storytelling that facilitate it, became foundational to the Japanese RPG lineage, because their creators were riffing off fantasy adventure stories for inspiration and not D&D's imaginative practices of player agency, where letting the players seem to be in charge of what is happening was an important part of the appeal.

I'm really looking forward to this game and will definitely be getting the SE package and I'm really glad the story will be continued with episodic content too...

The French studio has released a new developer diary about its episodic new title, which sees players follow the story of a girl with the ability to bend time, GameSpot reports.

So far there have been a few amazing episodic stories released for the game, with one last DLC episode being promised to bridge the gap between Mass Effect 2 and 3 later this year.

Experience a new story driven game where choices shape the outcome in the 5 part episodic game The Council which is out today with Episode 1 - The Mad Ones.

Telltale Games have gradually become more popular with every game having developed the cult classic Sam and Max seasons to episodic games based upon such well known licensed properties as Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, Minecraft: Story Mode, Game of Thrones and Batman with Telltale's star rising upon every release which has led to a certainly bright future ahead.

Rather than stick with the scaled back, episodic approach of Life is Strange which won them many fans (myself included), Vampyr is an action - RPG combining exploration, story and combat.

The black sheep of the Minecraft family, Minecraft: Story Mode is an episodic adventure game with a full cast of voice actors, moral dilemmas and a whole lot of drama.

Familiar faces make an appearance in the episodic series, with all new characters introduced to the story.

Telltale Games has always been relatively tight - lipped when it comes to details about its future episodic game projects, but the studio is getting ready to officially reveal the third season of its very successful The Walking Dead, with Robert Kirkman himself talking about the coming story and the timeline of the franchise.

Additionally, Call of Duty: Ghosts Devastation brings fans the next chapter in the ongoing episodic Extinction story with «Episode 2: Mayday.»

Telltale Games has had quite the busy year so far — they finished up their newest episodic story with Tales From The Borderlands while the upcoming season finale to Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series is coming this November.

But the game's single - player story won't be delivered all at once, as the title is planned with an episodic content, with DLCs leading up to Homefront 2.

Like in so many Telltale episodic games before it, Minecraft: Story Mode will be in the same vain, with the first episode scheduled to arrive later this year.

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The series had began with a short episodic story, titled «Case of Denzel», being released on the official Japanese website for Advent...

With Telltale having so much success with episodic adventure games based on massive movie or TV licences, Life is Strange could have escaped your notice, even though it features every bit as engrossing a story as The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones gaWith Telltale having so much success with episodic adventure games based on massive movie or TV licences, Life is Strange could have escaped your notice, even though it features every bit as engrossing a story as The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones gawith episodic adventure games based on massive movie or TV licences, Life is Strange could have escaped your notice, even though it features every bit as engrossing a story as The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones games.

Now, seventeen years since the journey's first onset, the series makes its console debut with the release of Dreamfall Chapters, all five episodic stories tied together into one cohesive package.

Telltale Games has several years of experience with episodic games such as CSI, Back to the Future, and Game of Thrones created the long awaited story mode to the successful sandbox game.

The idea of episodic content is not a brand new thing for video games, but the level of integration we have with spartan ops in terms of connection to the campaign's story and multiplayer modes, is something that I don't think anyone has ever tried before.

A good example of this is the episodic adventure game Life Is Strange, in which the protagonist's butt isn't emphasized or centralized; the camera angles work in conjunction with the story to encourage us to identify with her as a human being.

Secondly, we've decided that instead of releasing separate «games» and later combining them into a story mode, we will make Glitch Strikers an episodic game with the story told along the way.

The game is based in a small quiet English village called Little Riddle away from the hustle and bustle of city life, and the game is being released on the PlayStation Network as an episodic series, with each story linking to the next.

There have of course been great episodic games, none more obvious than the superb success that Telltale has had with its The Walking Dead series and other licensed properties, ranging from Game of Thrones to Jurassic Park, which weave a story through a modernised take on the point - and - click genre.

The third - person perspective game has players interact with their environments and complete a series of scenarios through its episodic story of investigating a ghost ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

Unfortunately, as a port of an episodic game originally released on 2005 era cell phones, it brings with it a whole different set of issues that keep it from being as captivating as the story really could be.

Turns out, outside of shilling their property for a re-skin licensed mobile game that I won't stop seeing ads about until the day that I die within every single app on my phone, the plan was to treat the actual game itself like a service, with story and gameplay elements added on later as the player (supposedly) grew with the characters and the world, as well as episodic story DLC.

As the adventure continues to unfold in Telltale Games» episodic series «Minecraft: Story Mode», Episode 4 throws our beloved characters on a new journey with an old goal: get to the Far Lands and stop the Wither Storm.

The exhibition loosely traces the narrative of the epic (and episodic) tale with each of the three galleries dedicated to the story's protagonists, Ishmeal, Ahab, and of course, the White Whale, Moby Dick.

It's an episodic adventure where you play as members of the House of Forrester as you deal with the events of the main story from a more peripheral perspective.