After dissecting what “ambience” actually means in my previous article, we concluded that ambience cannot be deliberately created in reality. However, fortunately for video game developers, it is possible to invent one…
The shadow is so much a part of us that we end up forgetting about it. A key element in Professor Layton’s most devious puzzles; the personification of the spirit of childhood…
“What mediates between the objective factors of the environment and the aesthetic feelings of a human being is what we call atmosphere.” – Makis Solomos Definitions Atmosphere is a term that comes…
Transmedia, crossmedia, shared narration, extended universe… So many terms for different types of stories, adventures to be experienced and shared! But how do you make sense of it all? At a time…
In the complex and saturated world of contemporary video games, 1000xRESIST emerges as an exceptional work, weaving together a set of themes as diverse as the transmission of trauma, narrative dilemmas, cultural…
Disclaimer: this article deals with an area that belongs, in part, to medicine. Although I originally trained as a paramedic, I’m here as a columnist. I have tried to source as much…
If you haven’t heard of Saviorless, don’t go looking into its development just yet. If you know the game, let yourself be carried away. 2 April 2024. A new 2D platform game…
There’s something about being bored, even if we’re not all equal when it comes to boredom. We’ve all experienced moments of weariness so profound, so dense, that they seem to alter relativity,…
French studio, The Pixel Hunt offers “games of reality”, video games inspired above all by everyday reality, drawing their inspiration from today’s world while borrowing a documentary and journalistic aspect. He is…
Developing a game is risky if you haven’t tested your concept. To find out if it has potential, you need to prototype it. Let’s see how.