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• Give a false impression of the boundaries of your world
• A feeling of freedom
• Immediate and satisfying player action
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• Chemistry Engine
• Materials vs Elements
• Multiplication not Addition
• Multiplicity in gameplay
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• Guiding the player with landmarks
• A slow mastering of the environment
• Technical implementation of environment and art
• Perspective
• Modulation of the environment over time (day/night, storms, winds, color palette)
• Gradient fog across depth
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• Free to wander
• Gameplay concepts learned out of order
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- structure
- dual worlds
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• Contributing to a world
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• Systemic death
• A feeling of home
• A surprisingly interconnected world
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• Minimalist approach to survival mechanics
• Systemic approach to player death
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• MOOD
• Choices define an intrinsic narrative
• Players drive character development
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• Abstract concepts like 'color' as abilities/power-ups
• Abilities that link to emotions (turn into square/denial, jump/joy)
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• Technology design
• Mysterious rules
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- in game map
- finite scarce resources
- gameplay decisions carry weight due to scarcity
- use what you can find in a jam
- tactical freedom
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- time loop
- feeling of disempowerment and loneliness/being out of place
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• Cinematic presentation
• Stylized world
• Perspective and first person animation
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- aesthetics, ui
- oblique systems and zero reward gamification
- revisiting worlds with slight modulations and strange surprises
- and odd feeling of home
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- inventory
- mastering an intimate open environment
- steady expansion of scope and ability
- survival horror philosophy: challenge, tools to overcome, rinse repeat
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- Bethesda philosophy: teach, play, challenge, subvert
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• Systemic death
• A mysterious island packed with secrets and depth
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• Meditation mechanic
• A living world
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• Environmental story telling
• Punk computer UI
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- atmosphere
- expansion of scope and ability with items
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- plant growth
- restoring life to terrain
- art style
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- a compact environment with distinct and memorable locations that all serve a purpose
- free to wander
- intrinsic reward of slowly planning and executing puzzles
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- empowering locomotion
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- ui
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- vending machine ui
- art style
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- world building
- lighting
- documents
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- defined paths with secret flexibility
- alternate routes
- aesthetics
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