{"id":607,"date":"2010-02-16T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:54:25","slug":"gameplay-is-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/gameplay-is-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Gameplay is King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/thegameprodigy.com\/gameplay-is-king-story-is-distant-second\/\">Gameplay is King: Story is Distant Second<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting read and one which I almost completely agree with.\u00a0 For games, gameplay is the most important aspect and should always be so.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s not then it likely stops being a game and becomes\u00a0something\u00a0else with gameplay elements.\u00a0 That isn&#8217;t to say those other things aren&#8217;t valid or equally enjoyable for what they are.<\/p>\n<p>My main gripe is with the idea that story is a distant second place to gameplay.\u00a0 If the story and gameplay are as closely intertwined as the author suggests in the Uncharted game, it seems to me that, although story is second to gameplay, it\u2019s a close second.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the idea of having the player do everything rather than just allowing things to happen to move the story along, such as cut scenes, is a great idea in principle.\u00a0 However, the article doesn\u2019t take into account the needs and wants of the player.<\/p>\n<p>Some years ago, when I worked at Revolution Software, we created a GBA version of Broken Sword and loved the way the direct control of the character gave a better connection to the main character, George.\u00a0 This is exactly what the Gameplay is King article is getting at.\u00a0 When we then created the third Broken Sword game, The Sleeping Dragon, we went for direct control on all platforms.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this didn\u2019t work out so well on the PC as many of the PC players would have preferred the old point-and-click interface over the direct control we implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this yesterday: Gameplay is King: Story is Distant Second.  It&#8217;s an interesting read and one which I almost completely agree with.  For games, gameplay is the most important aspect and should always be so.  If it&#8217;s not then it likely stops being a game and becomes something else with gameplay elements.  That isn&#8217;t to say those other things aren&#8217;t valid or equally enjoyable for what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,52,40,50],"tags":[11,7,9],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-game-commentary-games","category-game-writing","category-games","tag-game-commentary","tag-game-development","tag-writing-for-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}