Petri Lankoski Staffan Björk In GDTW2008 Proceedings, Liverpool John Moores University, UK (12th – 13th Nov). ABSTRACT Contemporary computer and video games utilize characters in large extent. However, game research literature says only little about how to design gameplay so that it reflects characters’ personality; mainly focusing on the narration and graphical presentation of theContinue reading “Character-Driven Game Design: Characters, Conflict, and Gameplay”
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Grim Fandango Puzzle Doc
Tim Shafer, the designer of Grim Fandango has released the design document of the game with some reflections.
Meaningfull Play Conference Proceedings
Available on the Internet. Need to check at least following papers: SimDialog: A Visual Game Dialog Editor (Charles Owen, Frank Biocca, Corey Bohil and Jason Conley) Rules of Engagement: Influence of Co-Player Presence on Player Involvement in Digital Games (Brian Gajadhar, Yvonne de Kort and Wijnand IJsselsteijn) Game Design and the Challenge-Avoiding Impression Manager PlayerContinue reading “Meaningfull Play Conference Proceedings”
History of Computer Games
Just game across with A chronological history of computer, video games and related technologies.
Lies and Seduction Psycedelia
Unintended strangeness from Lies and Seductions. We need to figure out what caused this.
Papers Accepted
I have a short paper / demonstration accepted in Interactive Storytelling 08 conference titled Lies and Seductions (with Tommi Horttana). Then I have a long paper accepted to GDTW2008 conference titled Character-Driven Game Design: Characters, Conflict, and Gameplay (with Staffan Björk). With these two I have four papers accepted, and two in the process. IContinue reading “Papers Accepted”
Lies and Seduction Beta Out
We have released Lies and Seductions beta version for OSX (10.3.9-) and Windows (XP and Vista). Comments appreciated. I am hoping that we can get final build out in October or November.
Lies and Seductions
We are starting to test the game. Let me know if you want to get hands on it…
Reading TODO
From quick reading, the paper A Preliminary Study Of Shy Males Interacting With A Virtual Female seems useful. I Need to reread it with time and think if I can use it in my dissertation. From Abstract of the paper: This paper describes a preliminary experiment that studied the reactions of male participants to anContinue reading “Reading TODO”
New Assets
Many things are still missing (e.g., the chairs and passengers), but things are starting to taking shape.
