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Showing posts with label Gaming. Show all posts

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Dodging Bullets, Stealing Guns and Reversing Death - Time Manipulation in Gaming





The winner of this year's 7 Day FPS Challenge hosted by Steam is a tech demo called SuperHot. SuperHot takes place in a strange, Art Deco world where faceless people try to kill you. The premise is interesting enough even before it's novel game mechanic is explained in big, white letters at the start of the game: "Time Moves When You Move". SuperHot's brilliant use of time manipulation is the latest in a long line of games. Here, in chronological order, are five of the most important ones:
  

Friday 20 September 2013

Gone Home Is Pedestrian


 Video games are great aren't they? You put the cartridge/CD/DVD/download from steam and boot up your game-playing machine and while away as much time as you like shooting baddies/slaloming/pointing and clicking your woes to oblivion. There's some people who think this isn't enough, though. They think games approached in an unorthodox way could give users a completely new experience. They feel that this new experience would provide something different from film, books or television. Gone Home has been lauded by some as this new kind of game.