I wonder....

Posted on | Wednesday, 10 November 2010 | No Comments

If I've found a little purpose for my mental ramblings. Following discussions with a friend about the kinds of decisions that game design (seems) to hinge upon, I thought; "Why not? How hard can it be?"

I suppose from this point on it'll be a journey into 'how wrong could you possibly be' on my part as I toil with both ideas and technical issues in programmes I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand.

I will, I hope, have something to show for my efforts - whether it be a youtube video, a downloadable 'mod' or a whole lot of post-portem discussion about everything that I'm bound to do wrong.

More importantly I think recent thoughts mark a diversion or, perhaps, a new direction for my thoughts about games more generally; I'll start writing about things that I was, after all, taught to think about: narrative and authorial intent being the most prominent.

Mass Effect 2 will still be the first game I write about - and probably fairly shortly having put a decent amount of time into it - before I start writing more philosophically about broader issues and concerns.

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