His 22-year-old brother was crashing in the central Florida home, too, and it wasn’t unheard of for him to invite friends over at odd hours. 'It was one in the morning when the Twitch streamer Ellohime heard a knock at his front door. He had been grinding away at a PC game that night in December 2015 while his infant daughter and fiancée slept. When Fans Take Their Love For Twitch Streamers Too Far (Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku) 'In this 2017 VRDC at GDC session, Survios' Chris Hewish and Mike McTyre break down the technological and artistic challenges, insights, and decisions that continue to influence and evolve the development of Raw Data and helped it climb the Steam charts while still in Early Access. ' 'Įarly Access Lessons From Raw Data (Chris Hewish & Mike McTyre / GDC / YouTube) I think that video games are very well suited for telling stories and that there is no inherent conflict. Interestingly, I pretty much agree with all of the points that Juul raises, but reject most of his conclusions. One of my favorite articles on the subject is Jesper Juul's 'Games Telling Stories?'. 'This 'go write a book instead' attitude isn't new. Story - What Is It Good For? (Thomas Grip / Gamasutra Blogs) Being NPCsplained at with screeds of exposition and feeling you’re taking little meaningful part in it all, game dialogue can make you want to run back into the hills.' 'Getting to discover the politics and personalities of a new location should feel like a reward, but the same formulaic text dump from city to city can make you feel awfully weary. The future of dialogue in games (Alex Wiltshire / PC Gamer)

Which would be a pretty big stumbling block, if true.

If the hope was that VR would ensnare the 'core gamer', I'm starting to wonder whether VR experiences are even core gamer-compatible in terms of narrative, linearity & replayability. Why? Well, partly because the game dared to hit Early Access at $40 USD with a fairly linear story, by the look of it. One thing I did find interesting from the links I still managed to excavate, though - the recent GDC video linked below about the making of VR standout Raw Data has a fairly high dislike-to-like ratio compared to other GDC videos (more dislikes than normal). This week's highlights include videos on the making of Raw Data & the surprise debut of Scanner Sombre, plus the history of seminal NES emulator NESticle.Ī quick and early newsletter this week, since we're in Texas for a few days visiting friends game-centric & non game-centric - among them Venus Patrol/ex-IGF supremo Brandon Boyer (& world's cutest megadog Scout), as well as Gamasutra publisher/EIC Kris Graft. [ Video Game Deep Cuts is a weekly newsletter from curator/video game industry veteran Simon Carless, rounding up the best longread & standout articles & videos about games, every weekend.

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