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I wanted to share a few thoughts about gaming. Many games offer players a chance to explore, to uncover new things. In PlanCo, we "search" through menus of icons and thumbnails to select whatever tiny little thing we want and then we flip it around and snap it in place like lego pixie dust. Its amazing how much creativity is possible, and yet there is very little to "explore"
When a player is introduced to a new game, they want to feel a sense of aw, and wonder, like a kid seeing a magic act for the first time. With PlanCo we have the opposite, looking at the basic levels of the game there is obviously some aspect of exploration, but not in the sense of a 3rd person game. We as the player are not invested into this world with a "3D avatar" that has any statistics to measure, whether its about resting or excitement or eating or playing or making money or going broke, it doesn't feel like it actually happens within the game. Its too much like a "model train set" instead of a "lets play conductor" feeling (if ya know what I mean)
I can play a game like Kirby's Epic Yarn, a game made several years ago on "inferior" Nintendo hardware, and be captivated by simple gestures of pulling on a string that makes me feel as if I'm actually interacting with the game and ultimately causing an effect within this "magical" world or realm.
PlanCo has very little "cause and effect" the effect is "you can do anything" and the cause is "because you can" like its too much like reality (LOL) but there needs to be something added in, that little something special that makes a game a Game... and the answer is obviously EXPLORATION! and the stamps/passports from RCT3 could be just the beginning!
Without some sort of rules or confines, then your just left with anarchy [tongue] we need to feel like we can enter these places within the game, instead of just viewing videos on Youtube all the time (at least thats what I do)
I just thought this might get some conversations started [cool]
Heres an idea - Give us a character that can be "hired" as a janitor, and who can work up through the ranks of employees before becoming manager and/or owner. And allow me to continue building my park while keeping an eye on my little guy or my mini-me [heart]
Who here ever played the original Theme Park game by Bullfrog (from 1994)? When you lost in that game, they would play the grim reaper music while showing a "silhouette" of a man jumping out of a window... no joke. Man I miss the 90s lol!
I wanted to share a few thoughts about gaming. Many games offer players a chance to explore, to uncover new things. In PlanCo, we "search" through menus of icons and thumbnails to select whatever tiny little thing we want and then we flip it around and snap it in place like lego pixie dust. Its amazing how much creativity is possible, and yet there is very little to "explore"
When a player is introduced to a new game, they want to feel a sense of aw, and wonder, like a kid seeing a magic act for the first time. With PlanCo we have the opposite, looking at the basic levels of the game there is obviously some aspect of exploration, but not in the sense of a 3rd person game. We as the player are not invested into this world with a "3D avatar" that has any statistics to measure, whether its about resting or excitement or eating or playing or making money or going broke, it doesn't feel like it actually happens within the game. Its too much like a "model train set" instead of a "lets play conductor" feeling (if ya know what I mean)
I can play a game like Kirby's Epic Yarn, a game made several years ago on "inferior" Nintendo hardware, and be captivated by simple gestures of pulling on a string that makes me feel as if I'm actually interacting with the game and ultimately causing an effect within this "magical" world or realm.
PlanCo has very little "cause and effect" the effect is "you can do anything" and the cause is "because you can" like its too much like reality (LOL) but there needs to be something added in, that little something special that makes a game a Game... and the answer is obviously EXPLORATION! and the stamps/passports from RCT3 could be just the beginning!
Without some sort of rules or confines, then your just left with anarchy [tongue] we need to feel like we can enter these places within the game, instead of just viewing videos on Youtube all the time (at least thats what I do)
I just thought this might get some conversations started [cool]
Heres an idea - Give us a character that can be "hired" as a janitor, and who can work up through the ranks of employees before becoming manager and/or owner. And allow me to continue building my park while keeping an eye on my little guy or my mini-me [heart]
Who here ever played the original Theme Park game by Bullfrog (from 1994)? When you lost in that game, they would play the grim reaper music while showing a "silhouette" of a man jumping out of a window... no joke. Man I miss the 90s lol!
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