So now there are two games out there starting with the words “The Walking Dead.” The first is by a small(ish) studio named Telltale Games who also made the Back to the Future adventure game and put out the Puzzle Agent series. You may know this one as The Game That Won All Those GOTY [...]
All artistic mediums excel at one particular aspect. They’re good at others, but each one has a facet that it is just fantastic at manipulating or exemplifying. Painting, for instance, can be of a painterly quality, which sounds obvious, but perhaps you don’t fully understand what it means to be painterly. Most of van Gogh’s [...]
Player choice has actually been a fairly large trend this year. In fact, I wanted to make this a Year In Review post, but there is one particular aspect of player-driven narratives that I want to talk about over the general, emerging trend of growing controller-side agency. There has been a whole host of games [...]
Episodic content in video games is nothing new. A scant seven years after the release of Pong in 1972 and Automated Simulation’s Dunjonquest series kicked off on the TRS-80 with Temple of Apshai. The definition of the concept, however, has changed in recent times. There was often a year or more separating episodes back then, [...]
Arkane Studios’ Dishonored, the hot topic this week along with Firaxis Games’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead Episode 4, has a very distinct art style. Many describe it as steampunk, but that leaving it at that would be doing a disservice to what visual design director Viktor Antonov and art director [...]
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