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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Latest Tguy - relativism

I was reading Jean Baurillard's "In the shadow of the Silent Majorities", and together with having watched the Dali Lama's teaching in "Our Future" (film) I came up with an idea of relativism in games: What if you are not the most important person in the game? What if the game involves you on the sidelines, with another entity as the protagonist? I came up with a simple 'solution' and applied it to the Tguy game I already had running.
The only real change is that the 'camera' follows a different player than yourself. I also had to add keyboard movement rather than direct mouse control (which was planned from before) because it helps create a sense of 'being in the world' a bit more.
The idea was to make you see from someone else's perspective, and how you effected them, rather than them effecting you.

Result: Well okay it doesn't really work that well, you end up just looking at your self, and frustrated that they move so sluggishly, while also trying to avoid their influence circle..

No youtube video today, they take too long really.. Grab the exe though and have play for yourself.

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