Gamasutra speaks with MidBoss developer Emma "Eniko" Maassen about sharing save files via Twitter, steganographically encoded in an embedded image of the protagonist's grisly fate.
An examination of “death cards” from MidBoss - a really clever play artifact that encodes the player’s save file into a shareable trading card that can be used to seed new games.
It’s 1996. I am standing before a massive Dwarven gate covered in intricate runes. I am weary from my travels and unsure of my purpose. I fear the world in which I journey, for I am oh-so-sma…
It’s not news that many groups of people have poor representation in game avatars, but this autobiographical writeup brings an angle I hadn’t heard before - games not including the option to play as someone like you sends the message that nobody wants to be like you.
Very often in a social game, the same feature can result in significantly different player experiences, depending on the relationship between the participating players. In this post we present some examples from our own game.
A few interesting case studies illustrating why the design of social or multiplayer experiences should be driven by the type of relationship players have with each other.