just_nonplussed

-Try to steal from it, before it dies. Sometimes you get something. 

I think part of the reason that the so-called 'core gamer' exists is because in the virtual dimension they've found a place where the world speaks to them and a place where they have some actual power and can realize their potential; It's a very vicarious way of existing. The prison of daily life, a reality for most of us, can be very daunting and is often structured in ways that make people feel powerless and isolated. So yes, video games offer us a glimpse of unlimited realities.. but it's still an illusion. Games offer a lot of raw power that can change our consciousness, but they're not complex enough to exist in like we exist in life. There is more potential in life, and if video games can empower people to believe in their own power as an individual, then I think they're doing their job.

I guess a better executed form of this type of thing would be interesting, but this was just lazy.  I simply placed my phone on top of the space bar and moved on to other things once I realized that there was nothing else to what I was seeing/doing, then I shot the air once the dude knelt, and I feel absolutely no desire to do it again to see the other outcomes...

Hey, I posted about this game a while back. It literally got no replies. I guess it helps if you're staff, but kind of silly...

So while I don't have the patience to actually play this long enough to tell you if this game is well designed, as a proof of concept it's brilliant. If you made this for a class, you should get an A on the assignment. Otherwise, use the concept of storytelling integrated into gameplay into a game that's easier/more fun to play please?

So how do you play? I keep clicking on the screen and the bastard won't do anything.

@just_nonplussed said:

@Gamer_152 said:

 It's a bit pedantic to be trying to say that the experience/how you experience/what you experience/what you're experiencing is not the story. Then what is? The experience is the total 'thing'. I think you are grasping at straws here. Perhaps by story you mean events in the script. Well, for example, Mario has events in the script. In the game the player is pushed forward and can jump on the shell and then has an option to throw it somewhere; maybe into a goomba or maybe down a hole. There's your script and your event, and the total nature of that game-play is the experience (Or narrative).  I'm done talking about this. :-)

Well if you're really not going to talk about this any longer then okay. I'll just leave you by saying that I don't think the idea that experiences and stories are not the same thing is by any means clutching at straws.

I made a little game in Game Maker. It's very simple, but I wanted to see if I could create an interesting interactive story with a begining, middle and end in the style of those old single-screen arcade games like Space Invaders, where all the action happens in one space. For the visuals I appropriated the graphics of the Atari 2600 classic, Adventure.
In Adventure, probably the first game of its kind, the player embarks on an epic quest to aquire a chalice. You generally explore castles, slay dragons, unlock doors (Yes, unlock doors!), and other things. Those Atari visuals just worked for my game, Invisible Wall, because they're so simple and easy to create, but there is some deeper meaning to the choice. Invisible Wall is about those situations in life where getting something or confronting someone (Or just talking to them) seems simple on the surface...It's right there in front of you, but there is something holding you back that is so powerful that that simple thing seems impossible. So my game subverts the epic hero's quest, as in Adventure.
 

 
I made this mostly to demonstrate how it is perfectly possible to tell stories through play (Through the player). There is also a glitch that I left in there because I thought it could add to the narrative in an interesting way.

Invisible Wall
Added: 01 July 2011
By: just_nonplussed