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When you are designing the perfect game in your mind, the first things to consider are setting and plot. These two things will make up a major portion of how your game is perceived by players, and will be a measure of how much they enjoy interacting with it.

One of the most common pitfalls that game designers fall into is a plot device called ‘deux ex machina’. In Latin, it literally translates to ‘an unlikely resolution’. Today we use the phrase to mean plots in which the plot climax is resolved much too easily or in an unlikely (more…)

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A good game is just like a novel; you want to tell a story in an engaging and interesting way. So when you sit down to create a setting and plot, there are a couple of simple steps you can take to move the process along.

First off, what genre is this story? If you want to tell a fantasy story is it a medieval fantasy world, or are you going to tell a story set with a Renaissance flair? Something science fiction perhaps? Choose a rough time period (more…)

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The earliest video games did not have much in the way of character development. They mostly contained simple, straightforward characters and a goal to fight towards, such as collecting fruit in Pac-Man or getting to the castle in Super Mario Brothers.

As the years passed, video games and their characters became more complex. From this complexity came intense plots and character backstories. That has continued to the present day, with game genres ranging from RPGs to puzzle games including fascinating (more…)

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Old school Gamers know What To Look For In The Modern RPG. It isn’t just a pretty damsel and distress, although, that doesn’t hurt the experience.

While graphics are nice, and an epic score can set the mood, these attributes don’t build depth, and they pale in comparison to what really matters. Players know that an RPG game lives or dies by its story. A compelling storyline can whisk the gamer away, and fire up the imagination. If a role player has a vested interest in the tale, and feels something for a fully fleshed out hero and party, (more…)

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Along with the vastly rapid increase of technology has evolved another form of entertainment, that of video gaming. Although video games have been around for only a short amount of time, video game design and technology has steadily evolved into what it has become today. From the old school to the modern hits of the gaming world it is clear that not only does the video gaming industry have a secure future but that it also has (more…)

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