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Dhruin
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GDC Panel on Story @ GameSpot
   

GameSpot is <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/14/news_6120430.html" target="_blank">reporting</a> on a panel at GDC that discussed the use of stories in games. Here's a grab from panelist Warren Spector:<blockquote><em>Commercial pressure was listed as another obstacle in the evolution of video game storytelling. Spector even recounted experiences in corporate board meetings in which he was "not allowed to say the word 'story'" due to the perception that emphasis on story scares many gamers away. And though Spector criticized those notions as "very frustrating," he stopped short of assigning specific blame, wondering if "it might be unrealistic for us to ask publishers to take those kinds of risks." Instead, he suggested that more experimental games might have to find new outlets and new market appeal. Young offered a less critical response, theorizing, "To some degree, it's just where we are in the arch of understanding our medium." He suggested that video game artists are slowly "uncovering" their specialized skills over time, and that the maturation process is "absolutely incremental." Spector seemed to agree, admitting, "We've made amazing progress."</em></blockquote>
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Post Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:09 pm
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personally, if i DON'T see a reference to a 'story', i put the game right back. if i wanted mindless drivel, i'd watch tv, for free.
Post Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:24 pm
 
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thank god I'm an english/history double major, and the industry I'd like to use those skills in has an abhorence to the use of story.

I love how the money people think gamers are mindless idiots uninterested in the use of story in games.

Post Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:04 am
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The first game I remember having a story was Donkey Kong.

No one knew about Zork or Collossal Caverns Adventure of course. We were only 12.
Post Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:26 am
 



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