A sneezing engineer was more than enough to keep the audience spellbound during the early days of film. But soon, filmmakers had to add the element of storytelling, in order to keep the viewers' attention.
As a medium, videogames are getting along just fine by relying on fun gameplay. But is it time to disassemble games and start building them with a focus on storytelling, as well as gameplay?
New blog post: http://frictionalgames.blogspot.se/2017/03/videogames-too-fun-for-their-own-good.html
New blog post on traversal
How do you handle travel time in games, and how do you keep the players intrigued and content during these periods. How do make going from one place to another fun? And what's the difference in our expectations depending on the type of game we choose to play?
Read our new blog post, where Thomas shares his thoughts on the subject. And let us know what you think in the comments!
People of Frictional - Meet our Executive Producer!
Time to get to know our executive producer, Fredrik, a little bit better. He shares some thoughts on our future projects, and let you get an insight on how Frictional Games is transforming into a two-project studio.
http://frictionalgames.blogspot.se/2017/02/people-of-frictional-meet-fredrik-our.html
Smallish update - Total conversion mods fix
Apparently something went wrong on the previous update, making it a bit difficult to run total conversion mods out of the box. Version 1.311 addresses that issue so you don't have to hack stuff to make them work.
Changelist:
- Launcher checks for the 'DefaultMainSettingsSDL2' entry in the init config file passed as argument and falls back to the game's default if not present.
- Game checks for the 'DefaultMainSettingsSDL2' and 'DefaultUserKeysSDL2' entries in the init config file passed as argument and falls back to the game's default if not present.
- Added "steam_appid.txt" file to make it possible to run the game exe outside Steam.
MIDWEEK MADNESS SALE - FREE copy of Amnesia: The Dark Descent!
Go there, check out the custom stories people have created, vote for your favourite in each category and if you like, enter your email for a chance to win a t-shirt!
What sort of t-shirt?
It's an awesome "That is not traditional fire"-Amnesia t-shirt as worn by yours truly at this years GDC!
