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Romeo and Juliet Game Post-Mortem

Posted by Zonk on from the points-for-creativity,-to-be-sure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gamasutra is running a post-mortem on an interactive love story that was written by students. They were attempting a solution to the game designer's challenge from the GDC 2004. From the article: Interaction with video games is currently done at an almost entirely rational level. The player may react to a game emotionally, but the game will never know about it, and thus, never respond to it. We wanted to change this, and have the player interact with the game solely through his own emotions."

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  1. Intriguing Concept by stpitner · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This game has a very intriguing concept. I don't know if by my selecting of colors it would appropriately pick the emotions I'd want to convey. It definitely has originality in the idea, I'll give them that.

    What's the color for wanting to throw your controller down in disgust because Juliet killed herself? :)

  2. Half Baked + Rushed Schedule = DOA by DingerX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So they set out with a vague idea of what the game was, basically an "emotional interface", no idea of how to work out the game itself; no run-throughs of what the concept was. They had limited artistic assets, which were essential for an impressionist game, and these were squandered by the shifting scope and requirements of the game. In other words, they didn't have a clear idea at the start, nor a clear execution.

    I guess that's why it's a learning experience. "great ideas" are very simple ones, backed up by a bunch of tedious execution.

  3. Game has a web site by fm6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here.. No downloads yet.