24. Walking with a Voiceover
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English - August 15, 2014 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBVideo Games Leisure Technology video-games games gaming upup down allen pike nigel brooke video Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Daniel Cook of Spry Fox joins us to discuss content-focused and system-focused game design. We talk about the rise of narrative games like Gone Home and Journey, and contrast them to system-centric games that offer deeper gameplay, at the expense of greater risk to game developers. We talk about how these forces have affected Spry Fox’s games, and dig in to their latest, Road Not Taken.
Dan’s Lost Garden article, How game forms are shaped by their environment
Full Indie Summit
Machinations
Dan’s previous game, Triple Town
Great games that seems obvious in retrospect, like Letterpress and Threes
Procedural level generation in Steambirds
Road Not Taken
Sam Machkovech’s Road Not Taken review
Architecture and Forgiveness, our interview with Monument Valley’s Ken Wong
Raph Koster’s theory of chunking and games
Steambirds