Neopets is a virtual pet website that launched in 1999 and surged popularity, but two decades later is under threat of becoming obsolete. Ībzu, Animal Crossing, Anodyne, Blair Witch, Dear Esther, Death Stranding, Depression Quest, Firewatch, Gone Home, Infra, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Layers of Fear, Observer, Octodad, Pamali, Paratropic, Return of the Obra Dinn, Sagebrush, Slender, Super Mario 3D All Stars, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Legend of Dragoon, The Station, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Polygon 2020, ‘Ranking walking simulators by how good the walking is’, YouTube. Wandering Videogames: Play, Performance, Protest. ‘Walking Simulator’ Is a Bad Name for a Genre So Diverse, as Call of the Sea Proves. What is a Game?, Philosophy of Science, 34(2), pp. The Walking Simulator’s Generic Experiences. Walking, Talking and Playing with Masculinities in Firewatch.
In the eighteenth episode of Meaningful Play, Sian and Jordana discuss a genre of videogames that has become increasingly popular in the last decade – walking simulators! Resultingly, this episode discusses definitions of walking simulators and how they are categorised by games audiences and games scholars, as well as dissects and muses upon some notable walking simulator titles.Ĭonsalvo, M., & Paul, C. Player segments based on gamer motivations.
Why We Play Games: Four Keys to More Emotion Without Story. At Least Nine Ways to Play: Approaching Gamer Mentalities. Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs. Rockstar’s Dan Houser would still love to make another Bully game. Kröger (Eds.), Multiplayer: The Social Aspects of Digital Gaming.Ĭrecente, B.
After recapping what we’ve been playing lately, we explore player typologies: what are some of the ways that researchers have tried to understand player motivations and preferences? We take Quantic Foundry’s gamer motivation profile survey and discuss our results.Īnimal Crossing, Bully, Greedfall, Moons of Madness, The Call of Cthulu, The Forgotten City, Spyro Reimaginedīartle, R. In this episode Jordana provides an analysis of the game Bully. Music created with Per Nyblom’s Abundant Music. In, DiGRA/FDG ’16 – Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG. Environmental Storytelling, Ideologies and Quantum Physics: Narrative Space And The BioShock Games. Environmental Storytelling: Creating Immersive 3D Worlds Using Lessons Learned from the Theme Park Industry. Towards a Framework for Embodied Narrativity: An enactive study of narrative phenomenology, through the lens of interactive digital media. Signposting, Mise-en-Scene, and Environmental Storytelling: Understanding signposting as part of the embedded narrative in environmental storytelling. Hargood (Eds.), Interactive Storytelling: 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (pp. Embedded Narratives in Procedurally Generated Environments. An Architect Reviews: Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City. The responsibilities in Red Dead Redemption 2: An analysis of playful learning through environmental storytelling in a videogame. How narrative techniques affect players’ engagement in action RPG Dark Souls II. Haahr (Eds.), Interactive Storytelling: 11th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (pp.
Building Beauclair in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine. Designing The Opening Moments of Bioshock with Bill Gardner | Gameumentary. “Life is Strange” Case Study: Using Interactive Storytelling and Game Design to Tackle Real-World Problems. Together, they discuss the concept of environmental storytelling (or “embedded narratives” as termed by scholar Henry Jenkins), sharing some of their favourite or notable games that have successfully implemented environmental objects as key narrative builders.Īnimal Crossing, Bioshock (series), Convenience Store, Cyberpunk 2077, Destiny 2, Final Fantasy XIV, Hades, Life is Strange, Mass Effect Andromeda, Phasmophobia, The Last of Us Part II, The Sims 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine (DLC).īarbet, R., & Koch, M. In the twentieth episode of Meaningful Play, Sian and Jordana welcome a special guest, Heather Blakey(!), a PhD candidate focused on games and aesthetics.