Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity by Jesper Juul

Author:Jesper Juul [Juul, Jesper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Games & Activities, Video & Mobile, Social Science, Media Studies
ISBN: 9780262042796
Google: i-mvDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-10-08T00:26:16.717552+00:00

Figure 4.14 New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo 2009). According to some designers, the sign with the arrow represents a loss of trust in the player.

A different variation on opaqueness is Jeff Minter’s 2007 Space Giraffe82 (figure 4.16), the layered graphical effects of which makes it difficult to see what is happening in the game. The game is inspired by 1981 arcade game Tempest,83 the main addition being layers upon layers of graphical effects, often obscuring the action in the game. The game in effect, and unusually, becomes one of learning to see past graphical effects, which runs counter to general assumptions that a game should be readable by players.84

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