Watching Jesse Schell’s DICE2010 presentation about recent trends in game development – which took as its subject matter the unexpected popularity of Facebook’s “social” games and the external reward boom (unlocks, achievements, increased focus on the “score” for gaming generally) – I started to have a think about our Gaming Made Me series. I don’t think there were many mentions in there of “I just got hooked on the points system,” and I wondered if that would be different if we did it again in ten years time, or just with a wider net of people. Moreover, it got me thinking about some of the reasons why some gamers were horrified by the picture Schell painted.
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Counting For Taste
By Jim Rossignol on February 28th, 2010.
Respond to our gibber
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- CaptainHero : “In true Valve fashion, I think they are playing for the long-term here. Source 2 will be their main priority at this stage. I think ...” on Of Course Valve Are Working On Half-Life 3, Now Shush
- InnerPartisan : “"This video will blow you away!" - IGN.com” on Telling Tales: Molyneux Vs Vanaman
- Trillby : “Ah, emotional manipulation through non-cliched and touching drama and prose. I hate it when games do that. All those feels.... Get over yourselves and make ...” on Telling Tales: Molyneux Vs Vanaman
- mouton : “Wait, Eli died? Who was Eli, anyway? That Morgan Freeman fellow?” on Of Course Valve Are Working On Half-Life 3, Now Shush
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