Raph Koster Says Immersion is Dead
More or less (emphasis not added): Things that we once considered essential to games drift in and out of fashion. And I think immersion is one of those. Immersion does not make a lot of sense in a...
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I have less than zero interest in the latest SimCity. Granted, I have not played a Sim City since SimCity 2000, or Streets of SimCity if that counts. Indeed, Streets of SimCity was perhaps one of my...
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After a long period of reflection, I had originally decided to not join in on all the schadenfreude surrounding the SimCity debacle beyond my post two weeks ago. Not out of any moral sensibilities –...
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