ingenuity
The possibility to devise an original strategy for a game that will yield superior results. Unfortunately, the vast majority of games do not allow the player to think outside the box, well, in our case, outside of the game script.
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Ingenuity and failure in videogames -
23 May 2007.
A recurring problem with modern videogames is that they don’t handle failure well. The player has to complete level after level, mission after mission... and don’t have the possibility of being less than perfect. The flipside is that to beat such games, the player imagination is not challenged, and winning is not as significant than in games that require the players to be creative thinkers, like the Mortville Manor we are discussing here. Beyond that, we’ll see how allowing the player to fail can in fact add value to games.