ihobogames @ihobogames
Award-winning game design and narrative design services, and more. Latest book, Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames - out now! ihobo.com Manchester, England Joined October 2018-
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The oldest game I still own (bought in the early ā90s I think) and called a āBookcase Gameā rather than a board game. Was that a common name for them ā¦@SpiralChrisā©?
Chris is in Europe from late June until Gamescom in August, mostly in the UK (possibly also in Paris). Anyone on that side of the Atlantic who wants to do a live interview etc. - that will be your chance! š
If you want to learn how to put together an open world to evoke curiosity, Nintendo's Breath of the Wild is a masterclass... the player is constantly drawn to explore, and there is always something new to discover. blog.ihobo.com/2023/06/curiosā¦
"The Mind's Eye" LaForge is a secret Romulan assassin as Klingon skulduggery returns! wamtng.substack.com/p/the-minds-eye
Flashback 2003: Zen Game Design (Chris' first ever article on games!) blog.ihobo.com/2007/02/zen-gaā¦
"Clues" It's a mystery without the murder wamtng.substack.com/p/clues #TNG
More than any other motive, the curiosity motive is a team effort. blog.ihobo.com/2023/06/curiosā¦
"That I was able to form a surprisingly robust relationship with such a peripheral character could be dismissed as merely a quirk of my personality. But I do not think so. It speaks to precisely why the closed world of Shenmue III works." blog.ihobo.com/2022/06/the-beā¦
"The High Ground" Off you go flying solo, Dr Crusher, in a political romp with terrorists and bombs and everything wamtng.substack.com/p/the-high-groā¦ #WAMTNG
A terrible pun on 'Bonsai', our Earth elemental Banzai is definitely up for ten thousand years of life! blog.ihobo.com/2023/05/originā¦
Kult Post-mortem (3): From Tom Baker to Release blog.ihobo.com/2022/03/kult-pā¦
"The Big Goodbye" The holodeck is malfunctioning? What a shockingly unexpected development! wamtng.substack.com/p/the-big-goodā¦ #Trek
Flashback 2013: Six of the Best and Worst of Ni No Kuni blog.ihobo.com/2013/08/six-ofā¦
"The Mind's Eye" LaForge is a secret Romulan assassin as Klingon skulduggery returns! wamtng.substack.com/p/the-minds-eye
"Identity Crisis" LaForge's body is going through some changes... wamtng.substack.com/p/identity-criā¦ #Trek
Agency arguably hit its peak in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrorwind - a game with unparalleled player freedom! There was only one problem: the majority of players had literally no idea what they were supposed to be doing. blog.ihobo.com/2023/07/agencyā¦
Flashback 2010: Gamer Virtues, Gamer Vices blog.ihobo.com/2010/10/gamer-ā¦
"Reunion" The Family season claims yet more victims as the House of Mogh plot arc bloodily returns! wamtng.substack.com/p/renunion #TNG
If winning in competition was all it was about, Mario Kart would have flopped. blog.ihobo.com/2023/06/socialā¦
The Japanese took Wizardry and prioritised the narrative motive for its storytelling, while Ultima placed the agency motive above the narrative motive - the play itself creates stories from the toy box the game provides. blog.ihobo.com/2023/07/agencyā¦
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65 Followers 364 Following Random Fart Noises. I make games although I wont always post game dev stuff. I also write stuff, mostly fan fiction but am looking to start original stories.@ihobogames I can see how it can be confusing and Oblivion, then Skyrim, had significantly more hand holding and tightened main plotting. Hell I donāt think I ever finished the Morrowind main plot, you donāt really need it!
@ihobogames Interesting how well Morrowind has stood the test of time.
@ihobogames I had a longstanding 'guilty pleasure' relationship with Shifters, a terrible 2002 Might and Magic side project that might be the 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' of videogames! š
One of the finest Pogues songs. youtube.com/watch?v=PSyL-Tā¦
@ihobogames On the plus side, Mick Fleetwood plays a fish. š¤£
@ihobogames The episode that gave us this side-splitting moment (and endless source of memes). youtube.com/watch?v=45VAelā¦
@ihobogames @SpiralChris I wonder if it's a parallel development ? Not sure how much overlap there was between Quake II players and DF? (given differences in style & gameplay). Especially with DF being an early example of the tactical realistic milsim shooters? (e.g. Arma) I wonder what DF's impact was?
@SpiralChris @ihobogames "running with knife" - Was definitely a thing in Delta Force - though I don't recall a speed gain. Delta Force was generally a slower paced game in large open spaces...sprinting was not common. Sneaking up on someone for a knife kill was respected. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Forā¦)
One for @ihobogames to watch!
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@huey_games @ihobogames Thanks for sharing. We will be playing the itch version of Silk. - Lily&
@ihobogames We don't. They're scary!š
@ihobogames ooh, honestly i like this look a bit more than the one ingame he looks like nosferatu but with hair
@ihobogames youtube.com/watch?v=sMk-HPā¦ i can't hear the name shocker without thinking of this, lol
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Ever wondered why the so-called 'social' games were so heavy on the grinding? Because they let their designs by dictated by the metrics of retention, and nothing is better at retention that giving people stuff and telling them to get more stuff. blog.ihobo.com/2023/03/acquisā¦
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