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By: Engaged in the Struggle « Wikileaks Stories

Engaged in the Struggle « Wikileaks Stories — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:58:31 +0000

[...] excellent Electron Dance blog, which recently wrote about Wikileaks Stories, has published a two-part interview with me about the project. The questions were very intelligent, [...]

By: HM

HM — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:06:17 +0000

I think factually grounded games don’t get the same airtime that fictional ones do simply because people think it’s going to be educational, i.e. reading between the lines: not fun.

When I hear GTA San Andreas is great social commentary, I despair. GTA SA encourages you to have fun in a gameified gangsta paradise and the shallowness of its story was self-evident before I watched even one minute of The Wire. Afterwards, the whole premise was pretty laughable.

I’m interested to see Gnome’s eventual Wikileaks Stories offering, because it’s a text adventure. That means, unlike the other games, you’ll have time to sit and consume the text it throws at you. But I hear Gnome is still struggling with Inform…

By: BeamSplashX

BeamSplashX — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:14:04 +0000

It’s an interesting proposition, surely. Many games that can bring the player to a revelatory moment are lauded for their achievement. However, a game with a revelation meant to explicitly reference reality generally seems to get less recognition.

I suppose it’s the knowledge that fact-driven moments are mostly generated by working backwards from a known/knowable event, versus working up to an entirely fictional one.

By: A Look At Wikileaks Stories « Wikileaks Stories

A Look At Wikileaks Stories « Wikileaks Stories — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:33 +0000

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