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No Truce with the Furies by Fortress Occident bills itself as an exploration of life as an utter failure, with visuals that call to mind oil paintings and a rundown not-quite-modern world in a sort of magical reality RPG. The indie dev team’s Robert Kurvitz took some time to answer a few questions about the…
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It’s a tricky balance, giving Moon Hunters a sense of random events without seeming repetitive. “It’s my white whale!” declared Tanya X. Short of Kitfox Games, indie developer behind the mythology-based narrative game. “To some extent, it’s personal taste, but it also entails lots of attentive playtesting, and watching for how often someone chuckles or exclaims…
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Meg Jayanth – lead writer on the amazing globe-trotting adventure 80 Days – gave a talk during the Game Developers Conference about the critical role NPCs can play in shaping a story and how they can subvert the usual expectations people have about a game’s protagonists. Specifically, she wants to undermine the idea of an…
As of this evening, you no longer need to take a programmed shuttle to get from one world to another – and certainly not as a means of getting from the starting point on Sol Station to your roleplaying spot of choice. Instead, the shuttle berth area on Sol Station features doors that open to…
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