With Game of the Year awards galore, Journey and The Walking Dead earned an awful lot of superior praise in 2012. Yet the core gameplay of each was anything but revolutionary. Should overall best-of awards take every aspect of a gaming experience into account, or are emotions enough to become true trump cards?
The composer behind Journey, Austin Wintory, recently had a chance to revisit the classic game, just in time for its tenth anniversary.
My fav indie game ever, played this on ps4 and ps5. Too bad it does not have a plat trophy.
Jenova Chen told us about the development of the game.
Today, veteran game developers with experience on games like Journey, Skyrim, Spider-Man, Edith Finch, Ratchet & Clank and more, have come together to announce a brand new game studio, Gardens.
Concept artist has a very distinct style and if they can translate that into the game well this studio will be making some visually stunning games.
This post is going to be a multidirectional mess.
At risk of sounding like a pretentious dolt, video writing has been lagging a bit behind other major media, such as film and literature, if only because it's the younger of the bunch. We have a lot of catching up to do, and we can't stand on the shoulders of giants because this specific media is so much more radically different than the others.
We may be oversimplifying it a bit by framing it as raw emotion, though, because the term 'raw emotion' is indicative of an irrational sensation which can often clash with the sheer amount of effort involved in craft that narrative.
Likewise, I think you bring up a pretty good point regarding our priorities when you insinuate that we ('we' in the large, broader, community) inflate the value of story. Personally, I believe story should be the primary strength of a game, but story is tied centrally to how the game functions.
Perhaps because we've grown up with an industry that focused for the longest time over providing a set of key interactive components rather than attempting to approach it on intrinsic grounds we've started to really look at resonance. Maybe that resonance is what's key, not the emotions themselves.
I DON'T KNOW