Interesting Links for 28-09-2024
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- 1. In case you were wondering what Lord Alli gets in exchange for donations to Starmer...
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- 2. Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
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- 3. People who had two COVID-19 infections were more than twice as likely—and those who had three or more COVID-19 infections were almost four times more likely—to report long COVID as those with one infection.
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- 4. Mathematician unravels Shakespeare-era card trick (with a little help from his ten year old)
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Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
Date: 2024-09-28 12:17 pm (UTC)Re: Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
Date: 2024-09-28 12:42 pm (UTC)Dark Souls (and related games) convey huge amounts of story through item descriptions and the like, to an impressive level.
Re: Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
Date: 2024-09-28 06:54 pm (UTC)Training mode, plot tokens... That is just too much like either my physical hobbies (training) or my daily work (definitely too many plot tokens in IaC, cloud techs, frameworks, 3rd party APIs...). I always said I would rather spend that amount of effort on learning "real life" skills. But that's me. I'm fairly sporty, musical and I have my garden fruit and veg adventures for strategy "gaming"...
Maybe I'd never be a gamer, but in theory, I would definitely like story and to be able to use creativity over collecting plot tokens ... to get better at running round killing things (which isn't too interesting to me. And why all the running all the time??).
Maybe there's some different type of games possible, where this conflict between story and "the game" doesn't arise. Just artificial / restricted enough to inspire creativity, without requiring the plot token mechanism...
Re: Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
Date: 2024-09-30 11:42 am (UTC)Re: Why Video Games Are Tough For Storytelling
Date: 2024-09-30 04:26 pm (UTC)Real Things and Films/TV.
I am in a minority though, right? I just wonder what people get out of games in case I'm missing out. And out of general curiosity. I'm not huge on more traditional games/board games either, except as a social thing that's ok even if not my favourite thing.