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• The Decline of Anti-Americanism in Metal Gear

  11 avril, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Criticism, Storytelling
  The Metal Gear series used to have a strong streak of anti-Americanism running through it, back when its political details retained their connection with reality. MGS4, with its slippery political vagueness, backpedaled away from this, and Peace Walker, while in certain ways the most (...)

• Interview with Paul Neurath

  5 mars, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Looking Glass Podcast Series
  The 10th and final part of the interview series with members of Looking Glass Studios (1990-2000), the company that wrote the book on 3D first-person narrative game design throughout the 90s, in such games as Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Thief. The guest of our final installment is Paul (...)

• Warm Praise for Cold Horror

  6 février, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Storytelling, Game Design
  If you read this blog you know I'm interested in narrative game design, in how game developers craft, encourage, and control storytelling. In the summer of 2011 I and a colleague of mine, Jason Beene, conceived and managed a student project in experimental narrative. The result, after eight (...)

• Interview With Terri Brosius & Dan Thron

  19 janvier, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Looking Glass Podcast Series
  Part 9 of a continuing series, where I interview members of the now-defunct but highly influential Looking Glass Studios (1990-2000), which wrote the book on 3D first-person narrative game design throughout the 90s, in such games as Ultima Underworld, System Shock, and Thief. This week is Terri (...)

• How Zelda Became Uninteresting

  26 décembre 2011, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Criticism, Storytelling
  The Legend of Zelda, for a brief period of time, was one of the most vibrant, experimental video game franchises around. Now it's a shell, having been browbeaten into apology after apology for having dared be so interesting. The "trilogy" of Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Wind Waker, (...)

• Bringing 3D to the Masses

  17 décembre 2011, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Game Design
  Super Mario 3D Land may look cute and colorful, but it's actually an insidious plot to corrupt 2D gamers into 3D gamers. This happened 16 years ago with Mario 64, a game that wrote the book on a lot of 3D gaming concepts (analog-stick movement, simultaneous character and camera control, etc.) (...)

• The Narrative Fatigue of Dark Souls

  28 novembre 2011, par noreply@blogger.com (Matthew "Sajon" Weise) — Criticism, Storytelling
  I just finished Dark Souls, the notorious sequel to From Software's 2009 sleeper hit Demon's Souls. Dark Souls was a game I was more excited to play than any other this year. Demon's Souls was a revelation for me, one of the richest, freshest, most daring AAA games of the last decade. It was (...)