PErsonally I love the japanese approach.
Instead of pretending to be anything more than an interactive movie, they simply do just that, but properly.
I dont really like those games that promise so much and deliver so little. If you do an adventure game, aim not too high. Do a little but do it well.


Ulysses and the Sirens ? I fail to see where the mystery would be (unless you are not familiar with the stories)

Sancte Isidore ora pro nobis !

quote: Original post by ThoughtBubble
Ulysses and the Sirens? Addy, you keep piquing my curiosity. Now I''m going to have to think about it.

You really ought to give the subject some objective consideration. It''s just like when contemporary artists discovered in Van Gogh''s paintings a technique that had been lost since the rennaissance (the technique could be seen and understood, but how it was implemented was unfathomable to the best modern minds),

The point I am making is that this genre, and it''s attributes have all kinds of advantages over other genres that have sold very well (and these genres had complex interaction systems that were implemented for very baser objectives like destruction and conquest) that address some of the most challenging aspects of engagement, suspension of disbelief (a weak definition of a very powerful array of cognitive response), player psychologies that reach to the very roots of what ''interest'' implies -- it''s all there.

I''d go into some of the specifics, but I wouldn''t sell you a bum steer when I said doing some research on what all the abstract and concrete permutations of what adventure defines will begin to indicate what vast potential this genre still has if only in the context of player gameplay experience. I think this genre, as opposed to all others, has a take away value no other can compare to. I will also say that because of the advantages this genre has no others have; developing successfully within it is very artistically challenging from design and story POV''s, and offers opportunities in AI most programmers would be scared of taking on.

I don''t consider it a waste of time, and though most people consider adventures in the contexts of the early great text adventures, that would have simile to considering rock and roll as only the stones and the beatles. There is a lot more here that meets the eye, mind, and first pass at consideration.

Addy