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1P gaming

one-player gaming, as opposed to multiplayer modes.

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Fiction is free - 6 November 2006.

Over the last 30 years, the price of creating the various game assets has increased at a mind-boggling rate. Except one: story. Still, considering how much impact a good story has on a game, game developers are not spending enough on this essential component.

History of multi-player and network games - 11 December 2005.

Multi-player has always been an important aspect of gaming - from day 1. Over the decades it has evolved and matured in a variety of forms. Does it mean that the future of game is necessarily online?

Open vs. closed games - 15 September 2006.

A comparison between open-ended games and closed games (with a beginning and an end).

Random and trial-and-error gameplay - 23 June 2006.

The use of random and trial-and-error gameplay are among the design choices that can make games unfair. It is still ok to use them, but only in specific situations and in any case, the player must be aware of that and not be taken by surprise.