Pacing is essential for narrative driven games. Move the story forward too fast and you quickly lose your audience, drowning them in rapid fire events that aren’t given enough time…
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David Klemke
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Ever since I played Auralux all those years ago I’ve been keenly interested in what I like to call “essence” games. They are, as their name would imply, extremely stripped…
David Klemke
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The Early Access survival/base building genre seems to have a pretty well trodden path these days. You start off with the base game and then release chapters/technology tiers/any other progression…
David Klemke
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It’s always fun to think about the genesis of the story and mechanics of a game. Quite often they’re rooted in reality in some way; the stories typically being allegories…
David Klemke
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I’m starting to like the idea of proof of concept games over things like Early Access and I’ll tell you why. Early Access has basically become a genre unto itself;…
David Klemke
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The idea that constraints promote creativity is a well known concept; the implication being that with defined boundaries you’ll make better use of the things that you have available to…
David Klemke
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Games that do a lot with not so much are always impressive to me. Sometimes this comes from the use of minimalistic art styles, selective use (or non-use) of dialogue…
David Klemke
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There’s a fine line you have to walk when looking into a game. On the one hand you want to know enough about it to make it worth your time…
David Klemke
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Even with all the numerous titles that were delayed due to COVID 2020 has still been a pretty amazing year for games. For me personally this has culminated in no…
David Klemke
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You know what’s kept me from playing nearly all the base building games out there? Early Access. Whilst I think the concept is good in principle there are far, far…