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This is a UX design presentation that I held at our internal DevDays at Sharkmob this year. It is something I’ve been thinking about lately, so this is not a fully formed theory, it’s more of a hypothesis. This is about setting expectations and primarily it is about WHO sets the expectations for me. Is... Continue Reading →
Emily is a level designer (probably lead, senior or principal by now. Probably all three.) She’s one of the most competent level designers I’ve worked with. Emily does her work in the shadows. Not many people know about her as a designer outside of the games industry - I think? - but her skill and... Continue Reading →
I’ve had the immense pleasure of working with Caroline while I was at BioWare, but I knew of her long before that. She has been a dialogue coordinator on many of the most lauded games from BioWare, and her influence, I think, is keenly felt in all of them. I wobbled quite a bit between... Continue Reading →
I’ve already spoken quite a bit about this aspect of games and the underlying implications of being unclean and inviting the monster into yourself in the post about Banshees and Broodmothers earlier. I want to return to Western ideas of monsters, though, and Western ideas of the grotesque, because there is a strong connection between... Continue Reading →
This post contains spoilers for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. I’m having some issues with Eivor in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. More specifically, I’m having issues with the game taking away my perceived control of Eivor in situations where I feel the game could have left it up to me as a player how to react. Eivor makes... Continue Reading →
Mass Effect 2 introduces the player to the perfect woman. Her name is Miranda Lawson. The back story of Miranda Lawson is this. She was genetically engineered by her father to become the perfect woman. Everything about her is designed, but as we shall discover, Miranda’s perfection is not everything it’s hyped up to be.... Continue Reading →
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