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The Essentials of RPG Design, From Ico to The Last Guardian, Left 4 Dead 2 Doug Lombardi I...

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simoniker writes As the latest in his Game Design Essentials series for Gamasutra, writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly makes them tick. From the entry on Nethack: Gaining experience is supposed to carry the risk of harm and failure. Without that risk, gaining power becomes a foregone conclusion. It has reached the point where the mere act of spending time playing most RPGs appears to give players the right to have their characters become more powerful. The obstacles that provide experience become simply an arbitrary wall to scale before more power is granted; this, in a nutshell, is the type of play that has brought us grind, where the journey is simple and boring and the destination is something to be raced to. Nethack and many other roguelikes do feature experience gain, but it doesnt feel like grind. It doesnt because much of the time the player is gaining experience, he is in danger of sudden, catastrophic failure. When youre frequently a heartbeat away from death, its difficult to become bored. Harris Game Design series has previously spanned subjects from mysterious games to open world games, unusual control schemes and difficult games.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The Last Guardian (PS3)
An in-depth look at the masterful game design of Fumito Ueda.

2009-07-04 01:44:00

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We talk to Doug Lombardi about Left 4 Dead 2 at a recent preview event in London.

2009-07-03 18:42:58

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Runes of Magic (PC)
New server kicks-off weekend of celebration including in-game fireworks, item shop specials, online item quest and more.

2009-07-03 20:20:00

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This video shows the Wii exclusive controls for Dead Space Extraction

2009-07-02 19:32:37

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Screenshots and details for Codies Ashes Cricket 2009.


Ashes Cricket 2009 will be the first cricket game on Wii when it bowls into shops in August, and weve got some new screens.



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2009-07-03 19:59:00

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Madden NFL 10 (X360)
Get a fresh update of stats in this years Madden.

2009-07-03 17:27:00

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Devs speak while Batman wrecks some villains.


Heres another video for Batman: Arkham Asylum, this time a developer diary talking about the moody setting of the game.

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2009-07-03 18:38:00

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Universal comes out on top of bidding war to bring Atari arcade classic to theaters; producer of G.I. Joe, Doom films attached.

2009-07-02 17:04:01

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Check out the Boy and His Blob in Action!

2009-07-03 09:20:25

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