And you may (or may not) be surprised that many of these stories rely on mystery plots and tropes as the engine to drive the game.īut some of these are even based off of actual mystery book series.
Casual Game designers like Elephant and Blue Tea have finally “gotten” that what they are really doing is creating a new storytelling vehicle. The graphics, the interface, the game play…but most of all The Story. What I’ve noticed over the last couple of years is that these types of Casual Games have gotten so much…BETTER. And the 7.99/month I pay them is two dollars less than I pay for unlimited eyebrow threading, and believe me when I tell you this stuff is way more fun. I’ve been a member of Big Fish Games for years. Casual Games, that I play quite Seriously as a matter of fact. In the games I’m talking about today, all this is swept aside so I can do what I’ve loved to do since I was a kid with a Nancy Drew book: Solve A Mystery. Neither am I interested in any game where my success depends entirely on how fast I can push the X button.īut with the games I’m talking about, you don’t have to find energy packs to stay alive, no one’s waiting in the next corridor to shoot you, and you can never EVER die (without immediately coming back to life at exactly the same place). The learning curve on those kinds of games is so steep that I just keep getting yelled at for not knowing what to do. For me, its the MM part of that equation that’s the problem.
I’m not talking about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) like World of Warcraft. Now let’s be clear what I mean by “Video Games” here.
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