Convincing Game Worlds

Intro Imagine you are playing a racing game, and you driving fast and trying to explore the area that you never been before. As you crossing a bridge that seems to lead you to a new city with beautiful buildings, you bump into an invisible wall and the game tells you that you just died.…

3D Printing and VR Games

Intro As technology progresses, VR has become a hot spot where every technology companies are trying to catch up. However, there are still a lot of space for improvement in VR, such as body movement, motion sickness, and unrealistic interact feeling with virtual objects. Last week, I watch a bunch of videos about 3D printing.…

Event[0] – A New Way of Game Interaction

Typing Based Mechanism Event[0] has the most innovative gameplay mechanism I see this year. The player can walk around and look around, but he/she cannot interact directly with most of the object. All he/she can do is to type into a terminal, and the terminal will process and react and you can use this to…

Emotional Connection in Firewatch

Introduction Couple months ago, I play the game Firewatch. It's a fantastic game that really drew me in. The beautiful graphics and the amazing story. The most interesting thing is the way it built emotional connection in this game. Someone will say this is a "Walking Simulator", but this is one of the games that I…

Realism in Games

When I was a child, I always dream about being a pilot. However, it's really hard for a 10 years old boy to find a way to fly a plane. It's really exciting for me when I saw the complicated flight instruments in the cockpit. It's not hard to understand why I was so excited…

How to Make a Game About Waves

There is no doubt that Game Jam is all about fun and tired. Well, mostly fun. This year, in the Global Game Jam 2017, we got a theme of Waves. So let's talk about how do make a game about Waves. Ideas When we first got the theme of this year, Waves, the first thing…