Comments on: Abstract/Narrativist WAR IS ON: Woosh Vs Waker

By: rgbgood

rgbgood — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:25:57 +0000

Great set of icons!! I’ll subscribe and use these, Liam did you create the icon set?

By: Mike Darga

Mike Darga — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:50:43 +0000

The overall concept of a game with and without its fiction really is a brilliant idea though, I’d like to see more of this.

By: Mike Darga

Mike Darga — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:48:21 +0000

I must say I was pretty disappointed to see that the second game was exactly as abstract as the first. Here’s my response if you’re interested:

http://mikedarga.blogspot.com/2009/09/dont-waste-your-fiction.html

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:42:16 +0000

While a team of students at GAMBIT created Woosh and Waker, we aren’t the ones running the research study; a different lab, whom we made the game for, will be. (No, you aren’t being studied when you play the game on our website!) But part of the point of making games is to have as many people play them as possible, so we have both Woosh and Waker up on the website.

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:24:48 +0000

I’ve only just realised this was written by Gillen and not Walker.

By: Xercies

Xercies — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:09:41 +0000

Damn you’ve dissapointed me with a post not about the wind taking down poor John Walker.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:44:27 +0000

I first read it as Woosh Vs Wanker. Not sure whether I’m disappointed or not.

By: Yuanqin

Yuanqin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:23:30 +0000

It’s always good to see more articles with references to Woosh instead of just Waker, Woosh has been feeling quite left out lately.

By: yhancik

yhancik — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:09:23 +0000

I first read it as “Woosh Vs Walker”.. I’m now disappointed, but.. *back to the article*

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:11:38 +0000

Gambit is one of the most exciting places in gaming at the moment, I think. They’ve got some terrific projects hiding on that site.

By: The Hammer

The Hammer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:50:51 +0000

“While they’re trying to compare two approaches, it’s entirely possible the real underlying cause would be “our narrative skills were sub-par”. Equally, an example in a single genre like this I don’t think has wider implications.”

Exactly what I thought when reading this. I like the idea of using two identical games and then giving the design a different approach, but there should be a lot of other examples, in different genres, to go with that too. Using just one face-off seems to really limit the credibility.

I like the background in the image of the second game, though.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:48:26 +0000

Couldn’t be bothered finishing it off, but it’s/they’re essentially good little games and while I don’t know how successful their experiment is, it’d be interesting to see more people try stuff like this.