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obstacles) and head (memorize rooms) were important. Pure freedom of movement, tones of different assets and many details made this game a “joy for the senses”, especially taking into account the hardware limitations of the little marvel that the “Speccy” was. I still store a couple of them in one of my shelving units and there’s no dust in there. References “Knight Lore” at the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Knight_Lore “Knight Lore” ‘s map and items: http://www.porotal.org/knightlore The Sinclair Infoseek resource for “Knight Lore”: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=Knight+Lore “Knight Lore”, a MSX2 Remake: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mL2wwosBxbs “Knight Lore”, a PC Remake: http://retrospec.sgn.net/screenshots.php?link=kl “Knight Lore” for the Famicom Disk System: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g7rMly1_8I&NR=1 A “Knight Lore” Walkthrough: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7243884507023050970# Directions on how to play “Knight Lore”: http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/ sinclair/instructions/kghtlore.html “Knight Lore” in Moby Games: http://www.mobygames.com/game/ zx-spectrum/knight-lore Crash, The Online Edition, on “Knight Lore”: http://www.crashonline.org.uk/12/knghtlr.htm Fuse - the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator: http://sourceforge.net/ projects/fuse-emulator/ The Crash Magazine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Crash_(magazine) The list of Le Blanc’s pleasures for the gamer: http://8kindsoffun.com/ Richard Bartle’s taxonomy for the player’s types: http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm The concept of “Flow”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_ (psychology) The Monomyth by Joseph Campbell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Monomyth JOSEPH CAMPBELL (1949). The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New World Library. 72
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Table of Contents Thank You. Well P
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Introduction Well Played 2.0 More P
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Cloudmaker Days: A Memoir of the A.
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abbreviations from the Periodic Tab
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that curtain was. This decision was
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experience. The ambivalence I felt
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special treat: in very faint text w
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storytelling where the topic is act
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For an adventure game to succeed, i
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cinematic, Manny despairs of his lo
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normal day-to-day life to reach new
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weren’t completed due to budget a
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mechanic Elementals that look like
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gameplay mechanics in Fallout 3. Th
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with moral dilemmas is done with th
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contained vignette will also make m
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One of the most discussed Quests in
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the grove to help the Wasteland whi
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weapons lost will change playing st
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nonexistent, and few gamers I talk
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Cyan is notorious for baffling play
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Figure 2: The Cleft in the desert,
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“writing” Ages, housed in “li
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ook, that book appears in your Relt
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visits to solve, each player needs
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them prideful and greedy. The impli
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midst and walking down the path. If
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Figure 17: Decoding the door in Ede
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As mentioned earlier, central to Ur
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Immersive Game Design: Indigo Proph
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compartmentalizes all of the conten
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immediate connection between player
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initiating a similar game-ending ev
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interactions have even greater sign
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was trying to concentrate on inputt
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Lions & Jackals: The Politics of Fa
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Banga, meaning “the all-powerful
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ealization of what he turned into.
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Maybe 80% of our players are just l
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Jeffries, L.B. “Far Cry 2: The He
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Looking beyond the moments, it is i
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prowess. There is some level of apt
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solid short-term goal, much like fi
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time or exploring the same game lev
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and seamless; the player is whisked
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Rasmus: I have an absolute love for
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feeling that there is something int
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sessions make it easy to get into t
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the game sometimes. Isn’t this a
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Jesper: I would argue that the disc
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incredibly exciting and rewarding,
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playing games — ironic, I suppose
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Sutton-Smith, Brian. 2008. Play The
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dilemma itself. Should I, the playe
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Pool of Radiance Sam Roberts Pool o
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play experience of Pool of Radiance
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probably at what might be called th
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containing a moment of choice, is a
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interpreted, without remaining hide
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Making and Unmaking Place in The Da
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technical accomplishments, the play
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understanding.”[160] Time of day
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ears).[167] Videogames take advanta
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the orphanage, church, warehouses,
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Golden Arm and His Girl Friday, tel
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directions except toward the goal.
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This dynamic is played out in a sho
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169 Celia Pearce, “Narrative Envi
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ilovebees: Playing and Designing in
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Curious parties falling through the
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Columns of paired numbers appear, l
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may be, they may still need to be n
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strength of its developers and its
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Resident Evil 4: The Mercenaries Mi
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skills at RE4 have earned you the p
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Another important factor that adds
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The strongest pressure on the playe
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• Do I have enough health left to
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New Section Francisco Souki It was
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the game stayed true throughout the
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a reflective Mamma mia! You only ne
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point it all took shape in my head.
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neutral planet, the attacking ships
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want to attempt to play at an exper
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abusive language. Most importantly,
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Stephen Jacobs is an Associate Prof
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granted by the EPSON Ibérica’s
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and Second Person. He is cited in m
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of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Sim
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designing and developing cross-medi
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