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Very interesting article over at Gamasutra discusses what we can learn from Film Noir to make better B-Rated games through clever design and storytelling. It’s a good read.
You can check it out here.
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When it comes to loregies about WoW there’s lots of talk regarding races such as the Blood Elves, Pandaren, and Orcs. One of the most underrated races however, are the Centaur.
They have their own zone, Desolace, and they’re closer than one might realize to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the over-arching world of Warcraft.
What they need is a catalyst. And they have one. Actually… two.
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One of my favorite book series of all time is “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. If you like British humor, I recommend checking it out. And no, don’t bother with the movie. The television series from almost three decades ago is actually much better.
Anyway, at one point in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s story, there’s a race that suddenly acquires space technology and a creates a righteous ruckus throughout the galaxy as it lays an irrefutable swath of destruction in its path wherever it goes.
The characters investigating this occurrence discover that this violent race acquired their technology from a crashed spaceship they found and reverse engineered it. But after finding that actual crashed ship themselves, the character make a startling discovery. It’s not actually a crashed ship. Sure it looks like a crashed ship… smashed to bits… all of the inner workings exposed…. but upon closer examination it’s revealed that this is not a wrecked space vessel. Instead, it’s something designed to look like a crashed spaceship that was actually built from scratch to specifically allow someone to reverse engineer how a spaceship works. When I remember this story, I think of Darkfall.
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