iXie gaming

JUNE 19, 2024

Game artists can leverage the power of 3D art to create 3D cutscenes and cinematics that deliver compelling narratives. The post The Future of 3D Art in Interactive Entertainment appeared first on iXie Gaming. This enhances the overall players’ experience, driving higher engagement rates.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Setting that up properly is an effort in storytelling, a discipline all its own distinct from game design. The first example that comes to mind for me was the courtroom scene in Chrono Trigger, wherein the fact that I went to pick up a piece of jewelry before checking if my companion was okay was used against me in court!

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

I think the bigger problem is that this pursuit of the 1P Strategy Game has really hampered my games’ ability to connect with players. It could also be that I’ve just completed the project now, having made two games that demonstrate what the 1P strategy game could look like.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Unlike Stardew Valley, there's no visible relationship meter or tutorial here -- only soft hints that a certain NPC might want to see the fish you catch, or that another is interested in unique plants, or a random cutscene where a character gets excited about electronics. I had to 100% all the content in this game!

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 7, 2023

This is one of those situations where simply putting it into a cutscene would easily cause a separation of the player from Kratos - it’s a reminder to the player that Kratos is someone who would have to do such a horrible thing, which serves as a bit of a shock. Build your content in a way that facilitates player activity, not passivity.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

So author Reki Kawahara drew on his familiarity with the games of the day and their systems to create what he thought would be a super-cool virtual reality game. Once consumer VR hit in 2015, we discovered a lot about VR game design. Cutscenes in an MMO? Worldwide Gated Content. How would it play?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

This might have some very light spoilers, but… honestly, one of my main criticisms is that there isn’t much to spoil in this game, at least not in the 27 or so hours that I played. The opening cutscene literally made me cry. The Good The writing starts off incredible.

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