Sentences with phrase «with video game narratives»

Gone are exposition - heavy cutscenes, long - winded fits of dialogue and various other tropes most commonly associated with video game narratives.

It deserves it as well, because The Walking Dead is a great game, one that truly pushes what can be done with a video game narrative that can not be done in film or TV.

Prior to playing FFVII, all the games I had played kept their plots and characters relatively simple, with gameplay entirely as the focus, so playing FFVII for the first time provided me with my first real experience with a video game narrative, and I really found myself growing attached to the game's world and especially its characters (Tifa is still my favourite video game character to this day).

Not exact matches

«The earliest video games really had very little in common with other forms of narrative entertainment,» said Bowman.

As with its predecessors, it's a rare game that earns its difficulty through the weight of its decisions rather than its gameplay, and it sets an increasingly high bar for narrative excellence in video games.

As video game tools have evolved, creators have been able to concentrate more on creating robust worlds with compelling narratives and... Read More

Storytelling in video games can be a hit or miss endeavor, with the best games nailing the basic tenets of good narrative, and the subpar games dying under the strain of too much exposition.

I'd say its cobbled - together story, brutal violence, and stylistic excess are comparable to a video game, but that would be an insult to some games (and I'm not being sarcastic, as there are definitely games that are the result of coming to grips with narrative and learning to channel the medium into something relatively fulfilling).

That said, I do think this game is fantastic and that anybody interested in mobile games with depth, SRPGs, or video games with great narratives should buy The Banner Saga.

(What's interesting to note, however, is that Trachtenberg's career really began to build traction after he released a short film based on the video game Portal; that game's narrative has more than a few things in common with 10 Cloverfield Lane «s, which I found intriguing.)

He is currently researching how students read and engage with non-traditional texts like video game narratives, manga, horror, fantasy, etc. as well as the effects of inquiry teaching on teachers, students, and learning.

This not being the case for today's Video game titles, with all the New genres / game archetypes, and some being purely multiplayer based which needs no story, but that falls on whether or not games even need narrative but that's a whole different post you can read here.

The democratisation of game development is high on Chet Faliszek's agenda, especially when it comes to experimenting with new ways to create video games narrative via artificial intelligence

Though this is not a new idea for video game narratives, what stands out in Cave Story is that these choices may not be apparent to the player, who may just go along with a specific choice because it is expected from them based on previous years of experience playing other games.

Players who want to feed banknotes to an already - overrated egotist are advised to do so with all haste, but those with any regard for quality in interactive storytelling and the narrative structure of video games should look elsewhere.

Video games are one of our most interesting and engaging narrative mediums, so why do business plans appear to have such a problem with portrayals of sex and relationships?

Set in a darkly imagined, underwater Ayn Randian dystopia and rife with deep narrative and philosophical themes, the game went beyond some standard video game tropes.

The video game BioShock Infinite received widespread praise for having a rich narrative packed with philosophy when it debuted last year.

The video features gameplay footage and discussions with key team members who talk about what makes the game's blend of narrative with...

The video game BioShock Infinite took players to an alternate U.S. and a story filled with philosophy and a rich narrative — but also a lot of violence.

In this edition I talk with Chris Suellentrop, video game critic for the New York Times, and Steve Gaynor of the Fullbright Company, an indie game studio developing Gone Home, a finalist for the Excellence in Narrative award at the Indpendent Games Festival later this month.

A narrative - driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home — preparing the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attending their funerals and listening to their loved ones» stories, and running the business.

In an era of video games when developers often supplement narrative for great graphics, Naughty Dog prove with the Uncharted series that both can live in perfect harmony.

Maybe this was because they tried a new gameplay element or attempted something new with the narrative that was unprecedented for a video game.

A video games company can apply if they are registered for at least 12 months and have produced a game with a strong narrative structure, which has been commercially distributed since the beginning of 2013.

Rean, Alisa, Elliot, Laura, Machias, Jusis, Emma, Fie, and Gaius is undeniably one of the strongest main cast of characters to exist in a modern video game, and it definitely helped to suck me into the story and feel an emotional connection with every single one of them every time something major or minor would happen in the narrative.

There's nothing quite like having a lazy afternoon with nothing else to do except put on a video game, get lost in a narrative and overcome a few challenging puzzles.

Boasting a unique combat system in which everyday objects become weapons, multiple story routes, a varied cast of characters based on common anime and video game tropes and a narrative dripping with social satire and subtle nods to Japanese pop culture, AKIBA»S TRIP is a present - day supernatural adventure for the gamer in all of us.

But now, not satisfied with Tekken and his recent XBLA game Way of the Dogg (in which, by the way, you play a character unironically named America Jones who learns how to reverse time and punch dudes at Snoop's magical Dojo, setting video game narrative back another five years), Snoop Hedgehog is lending his vocal cords to a Multiplayer Announcer voice package for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Following the release of leaked gameplay videos, Bethesda announced a fun cross-promotion with Fallout - themed vehicles for Forza Motosport 6, and the game's launch trailer showcases key portions of the game's narrative, action and overall tone.

Video games have adapted to the art of storytelling and have developed sweeping narratives and characters that have stuck with us throughout the years.

With Gone Home by The Fullbright Company, this year we received a game which was a mark of excellence for narrative in video games.

Naughty Dog really didn't break out as a storytelling studio until its Uncharted franchise released on the PS3, but it perfected its video game narrative excellence with The Last of Us.

Trading in tight or complex gameplay for what is often an engaging and thought provoking narrative wrapped in vast exploration, walking simulator video games have created a genre of their own and with any luck are here to stay.

Shacknews video editor and amateur chinchilla breeder Greg Burke got the chance to have a talk with the game's narrative designer on the GDC floor.

Even though this trend has been omnipresent ever since the original Donkey Kong, Squaresoft has long been considered the pioneers of this tend with Final Fantasy 7 being described as the first video game that make this type of narrative choice into a possible reality (whether this is true or not is debatable).

While the initial title within the series received some feedback for a narrative campaign to be added in with the sequel, the developers over at Respawn Entertainment attempted to pull out all the tricks to deliver fans a truly spectacular video game experience.

First announced in July 2015 with a planned release in 2016, we just learned that the game has been delayed to next year: Narrative Designer Viktor Juhasz confirmed as much to Angry Joe at the very end of his video preview.

The video game is being developed by Night Dive Studios which will retell the narrative journey of a nameless hacker who gets swindled into working with the TriOptimum Corporation.

Video games have long experimented with the idea of multiple endings, branching narratives, and all the different ways a player can change the outcome of a game's story.

The annualization and inconsistent naming structure of Assassin's Creed titles, coupled with the abandonment of the one major through - line narrative of the games, painted an ugly and confusing picture of the series which once dominated the video games industry.

IMO, the Half - Life series, with it's contribution to environmental design, narrative and modding - culture, would be a more likely candidate to compete for the «Citizen Kane of Video Game» mantle.

Blending his obsession with the history of conflict and pop culture influences from video games, films and TV shows, the artist tells a wartime narrative starring an imagined cast of fascinating characters.

Anderson's work indicatively occupies the low floor, making giants of the viewer; her sculptures (like stage sets viewed from the «gods») combine arcane folk narratives, playful characterizations and linear structures sourced from video and arcade games, combined with reflections of contemporary urban malaise.

Using an engine for developing video games, Emissary is made up of open - ended animations with no fixed outcome or narrative — a format Cheng calls live simulation.

«Chop Suey», a talk by Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc., will highlight the work of artist, animator, and critic Theresa Duncan (1966 - 2007), with a special focus on her 1995 experimental narrative video game, CHOP SUEY, a work created in collaboration with David Sedaris and members of the band Fugazi.

You would not need a classroom; rather, you get an interactive course with video, flash animations, games and audio narratives.

Sentigle Africa is startup comic and motion books Company with plans to develop video and mobile games and the aim to produce unique narratives of Africa's story.