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• Announcements·16 May 2019Official

  Article: What makes the game memorable?

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/d209bbbb3581d0ea4f6ea66a6d66ce0e6f669d64.gif Since gaming had become a humongous and significant medium, developers compete in the quality of the details. Modern technology allows them to create games nearly as realistic as our world; make everything more natural, even if the applied features are, for us, so common that we do not even notice them in the real life anymore. In fact, the more tiny elements are included in the game, the more players are going to remember it, because they admire the particularity. To achieve this, creators need to design elements which perfectly fit the exact moment of gameplay; the goal is to make an obvious element in the right place while making it surprising at the same time. For example, take a look at Spider-Man made by Insomniac Games. When your friendly neighborhood hero uses his communicator and gets exhausted from fighting or chasing a villain, we can hear how he draws his breaths more deeply. It’s a feature that some players may not pay any attention to, but those who do will be astounded by the developer’s attention to detail. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/99aa8201a730ff8bc1d33541b5a7a74b682f4ac3.png Let’s go for a quick journey into the past, back to 1998, when the first Half-Life was released. This game has been a revolutionary title for many reasons. And one of them still makes a huge impression today, despite the passing years. All the NPCs use sense of smell - when we’re accompanied by one of the friendly characters, they can comment on the odour of the enemy we have just killed. Initially, this surprising addition was overlooked by players, but now, almost 20 years after the launch of the game it’s been rediscovered leaving the community admire the game even more for such an innovation. Another example of such feature can be found in Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth. To fuel the conflict, AI is...
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• Announcements·5 Apr 2019Official

  Article: Our perspective on secret features

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/61e29e1b1b93eb7d7173790abe3f1690f17d24fe.png Easter eggs have become an integral part of lots of games. Players love to explore the game’s world and some of them do it for a sole purpose of finding secret messages hidden by the creators. Those messages can practically relate to everything: other games or movies and sometimes even to real-life persons or events. Developers enjoy creating these secret features just as much as players enjoy hunting for them. That is the reason why we have put so many of them in our game. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/d03589ec26df2794256ce8dfbc575176ca73c8ed.png Playerless: One Button Adventure may seem like a strong proving ground on the issue of hidden messages - it’s a game within a game after all. Therefore, our intention was to go beyond the boundaries of the plot by - easiest to say - allowing Easter eggs to live their own lives. The game inside Playerless: One Button Adventure is visibly broken. You can tell that not only by noticeable errors but also by its code leaking to the surface. An avid programmer may notice this little tribute to their profession that enriches the regular gameplay. Focusing on the intentionally implemented bugs may lead the player to new discoveries, such as alternative paths or hidden rooms, so the game rewards attentive observation. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/c4d1457ba0c6abd49ab714d0a4378a86ff9dc917.png Our inspiration doesn’t come only from the game code. We wanted Playerless: One Button Adventure to easily engage every type of players, no matter if they are more passionate about computer science or culture. For the latter group, we have decided to transfer some themes from real-life to the virtual one. So watch closely; the works of art around you can tell you more about the characters than their actual actions. https://steamcdn-a.a...
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• Announcements·19 Mar 2019Official

  Article: An immersive adventure for everyone

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/fc2a44b9bc64595d464944db22f0b07e386c7840.png For the past thirty years, video games have been evolving in a way no one has ever dreamed of. Nobody expected them to be so much more than temporary entertainment. From today’s perspective, it makes them comparable to cinematography in the early years of its development, when its creators, the Lumière brothers, may have often been hearing: it’s not going to last long. Luckily, video games have survived and nowadays we can fully appreciate them, sometimes even as works of computer art. Besides the artistic values, another crucial part of every game is immersion. It used to be a part of games from the very beginning. But does it still play the leading role, even after the development of the main medium? https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33384000/ab8ea5fb08eeda2ccf6a129116b7705532fd52f8.png First of all, let’s assume that immersion is an enormously subjective part of a video game. There are players that need a perfect plot to be absorbed, others will say that a visible development of their hero is something that keeps the flow going. Someone will find the simplicity of game mechanics immersive. Player’s preferences on what makes them feel like being part of a virtual world have been changing through the years because the gaming industry gave them a reason. For example – in the early eighties, players used to find the very first version of Elite realistic and also immersive, despite the fact that the graphics at the time were far from life-like. Today we can enjoy another part of this series (Elite: Dangerous), created in a meticulously detailed manner as if it was almost a copy of the existing cosmos and still some of the players will say it’s not even close to immersive at all. So the creation of a perfectly absorbing world seems to be an impossible challenge because immersion is subjective as someone’s opinion, and...
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