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The Fourth Wall: Breaking the divide between the game and the gamer

Came across this link via King Lud IC, a gamer / game designer from Virginia:

List of Video Games that Break the Fourth Wall

The fourth wall is the invisible divide that separates the viewer from that being viewed. Subjects that break the fourth wall show self-awareness, such as in Contact DS (not mentioned in the Wikipedia […]

A game by any other name would smell as sweet …

In understanding games as a theoretical construct, it’s always useful to start by analysing their basic patterns. For those who can look beyond the medium itself and unearth the fundamental game within, it’s not surprising to know that some core gameplay elements really haven’t changed for the last few thousand years. Chess has a […]