Comments on: I Love Games! https://digitalwriting.site/2024/11/07/i-love-games/ Experiments in Digital Content Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Goldie the Goldfish https://digitalwriting.site/2024/11/07/i-love-games/#comment-604 Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:04:05 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1615#comment-604 Hello! I really like your last point about how this reading didn’t just make you think about our next big project, but about other game you enjoy and what it is that makes them fun. Even though I’m not super into video games, the reading did make me realize that there are commonalities in the games I do enjoy. I also like that you highlighted the key points from the section on making choices that actually impact your game. Again, even though I’m not a super big gamer I think this one applies to that rule from storytelling (especially if you’re thinking about a mystery or something like that) that if you mention something it has to be important later.

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By: Baileycrosslin https://digitalwriting.site/2024/11/07/i-love-games/#comment-595 Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:06:51 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1615#comment-595 I also really like when game developers made the “bad” choices more interesting! Being able to experience more of the story is so much more fulfilling than getting the best ending possible in my mind. Being able to cater some of those decisions in a game (and the game as a whole) is a really important thing to think about. Along with that, thinking about how to design the game to cater to as many player types and people as possible is best practice, as more people will see themselves represented and want to immerse themselves in the game. I love, love, love when games have you make choices that will have permanent consequences that you can’t take back without restarting the game. Undertale is one such game: it forces you to live with the fact that you’ve killed the citizens of this underground world, or you have to continue on the pacifist path, even if your journey will be filled with more peril and danger. Overall, game design is complicated but can pay off really well when all considerations are taken!

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By: sunburned cowgirl https://digitalwriting.site/2024/11/07/i-love-games/#comment-588 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:31:28 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1615#comment-588 Hey!

I think you do a great job at discussing the topic of game creation. I can tell you are passionate about games, which made this post a lot of fun to read. I like how you said, “You want the players to be aware that they’re making a choice. That choice should cause consequences and impact the story itself, showing how their choices changed the story. This can be for better or worse. Then you want there to be permanence showing the player that things are irreversible and have a lasting effect throughout the game.” I think this gives me a lot of insight to the world of games, since I am not a game maker or player… You make it sound so intentional and fun to play a game, which in my case I never felt. I think it’s cool that you also took away something from these readings even though you already (probably) knew a lot about games to begin with.

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