Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain.
Chewing Pixels: Lest We Forget
Simon Parkin ponders what it means to make a realistic or authentic military game.
Suicide Girls: Brutal Legend And The Worlds Of Tim Schafer
PixelVixen argues that our favourite Tim doesn’t just design games, he builds entire worlds.
GameSetWatch: Plotting, Emergent Narratives, and ‘Story Spaces‘
Tom Cross explores how games abdicate authorship to redefine what a narrative actually is. Part 2 is here.
The Escapist: Designing Religion
Alan Au examines how Sid Meier’s Civilization series has handled religious matters from game to game.
The Brainy Gamer: The Darkness
Michael Abbott inspires me to revisit Starbreeze’s disturbingly well-conceived shooter.
Scott Heald
Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 4:58 PMhow about my fav PJ’s, 3 big browny’s of Melbourne Bitter and a thanks to the lads for a GREAT Friday night frag fest….!
Happy Sunday….’Jelqirt’ (Triple J backwards.)107.50FM…
Alex Cullinan
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 3:06 AMThat GameSetWatch article features the Blade Runner game a fair bit throughout. Good one, it was.