Olen täällä blogissa aiemminkin pohtinut Warren Spectorin uraa pelisuunnittelijana, ja sen taustalla piileviä oletuksia tietokonepeleistä ja niiden tavoitteista. Spector tunnetaan ennen kaikkea “immersive simeistä”, eli Ultima Underworldin, System Shockin, Deux Ex:n ja niiden sielunkumppaneiden kaltaisista FPS-peleistä, joissa pelaaja voi vapaasti valita lähestymistapansa. Spectorin ura on huikea ja sen varrelle mahtuu työskentelyä niin Steve Jackson Gamesissa,… Continue reading Warren Spector ja Moby Dick
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Fantasies and metaphors
The great modern fantasies were written out of religious, philosophical and psychological landscapes. They were sermons. They were metaphors. They were rhetoric. They were books, which means that the one thing they actually weren’t was countries with people in them. The commercial fantasy that has replaced them is often based on a mistaken attempt to… Continue reading Fantasies and metaphors