Comments on: Beginnings http://segonmedia.com/2007/12/02/beginnings/ Yet Another Media Criticism Blog Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: http://scuba-sm.livejournal.com/ http://segonmedia.com/2007/12/02/beginnings/comment-page-1/#comment-6 http://scuba-sm.livejournal.com/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:11:55 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/2007/12/02/beginnings/#comment-6 I look forward to reading what you have to say on this subject. A well developed game will tell a story, and any story in any medium has the potential to carry higher level meanings. As games progress, they will have a feature in their story telling, and by extension their message-carrying ability that other forms such as literature do not have. That feature is choice. I agree with the author of the following article that we are not quite at the point where this has been done with a commercially successful title, but we are very close. http://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html I look forward to reading what you have to say on this subject. A well developed game will tell a story, and any story in any medium has the potential to carry higher level meanings. As games progress, they will have a feature in their story telling, and by extension their message-carrying ability that other forms such as literature do not have. That feature is choice. I agree with the author of the following article that we are not quite at the point where this has been done with a commercially successful title, but we are very close.
http://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html

]]> By: http://faucon9.livejournal.com/ http://segonmedia.com/2007/12/02/beginnings/comment-page-1/#comment-5 http://faucon9.livejournal.com/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:22:14 +0000 http://segonmedia.com/2007/12/02/beginnings/#comment-5 If you use Firefox (as every other sane techie) you can Clue others in: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5540 Fantastic little gadget that is =) If you use Firefox (as every other sane techie) you can Clue others in:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5540

Fantastic little gadget that is =)

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