Duck in Games

What is better? Have the bare minimum of character development or having a character, that is developed so far and deep, that you lose the initial idea of said character? What is more suitable for the FPS game? I bet you already know the answer, but let’s dive into the character development through the cutscenes.

This Episode became possible thanks to beautiful patrons:

Heather Welch

Mat Demaz

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Throw me a mail to MrAngryDucky(at)duckracy.com if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in your mail or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE

When you pick up the game about the mysterious occurrences in the remote city in the US where there are only two people interested in the situation one being a person of action and open-minded and the other is firmly standing on the ground, you get… No, not the X-Files, it’s Kathy Rain, the game is so obviously inspired by the X-Files, that it works with the formula rather well. Apart from the one thing – the music. Music in this game is not something you should be hyped about. But let’s dig deeper and find the truth, somewhere out there.

This Episode became possible thanks to beautiful patrons:

Heather Welch

Mat Demaz

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Throw me a mail to MrAngryDucky(at)duckracy.com if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in your mail or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE

A Short Hike is a very sunny and nice indie game that we were looking at on Twitch recently and I thought that having so little time as couple of hours of gameplay and quite a silent protagonist, the game has a very strong narrative design and should be dissected for the knowledge. And I can’t be quite objective about this game so bear in mind, your mileage may vary.

This Episode became possible thanks to beautiful patrons:

Heather Welch

Mat Demaz

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Throw me a mail to MrAngryDucky(at)duckracy.com if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in your mail or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE

Your first game, even if it’s not your real first game will suck major time. Wanna see how you can make it better? Learn from the good people in the industry, learn from the developers of Shadowrun Returns. Don’t repeat after them. Analyze what they did, extrapolate it, use this knowledge to become a better consumer, developer or just a better person. Just… don’t try to make larger-than-life game as your first one, ok?

This Episode became possible thanks to beautiful patrons:

Heather Welch

Mat Demaz

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Throw me a mail to MrAngryDucky(at)duckracy.com if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in your mail or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE

Sometimes crafting is the only thing, that keeps your game afloat. Sometimes it’s an anchor, that continuously tries to drown your game. In Fallout 3 crafting is bad. It was a step into some direction, sure, but was it a good step, or a step, that made you fall flat on your face? We’re about to find out.

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Here we go – Season 1 upon us already and what better way of sneakily starting the season 1 by dissecting the game that left me with the ambiguous state of loving its mechanics and hating the utilization of said mechanics – Styx: Master of Shadows. And we try to scrape everything we can from the stealth in the game, because it’s one of the better ones.

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Sometimes your game has everything but it’s not fun to play. Maybe – just maybe – you were missing something tiny and unimportant… like the most basic thing you have in any game available? And so that this doesn’t happen to anyone anymore, we’re about to have a talk about what is the game loop and how to deal with it.

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Creating the sufficient and believable world for the game is a hard work. As we can see it, it’s impossible task for some. But most of the time all you need is a basic human decency, empathy or just throw away everything and make a twitch shooter, where world should just be big enough for your player and their guns!

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Throw me a mail to MrAngryDucky(at)duckracy.com if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in your mail or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE

It’s a bit longer episode but i think it’s time to have this sorted out once and for all – we need to develop some characters. And It’s better to know how to do those kind of things, than to not. Let’s dive into the character development pool – where you’re free of character and where you’re not. And if you’re not, how do you want to make a character arc.

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Throw me a mail to MrAngryDucky(at)duckracy.com if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in your mail or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE

Let’s recap the last episode and dig deeper into the decisions you need to make to make your protagonist better and what do you need to learn about humans to make your character appeal to them. Also extra points for you if you know the person I was quoting in the name of the file (Though I changed a quote a little).

Have fun, have a good time, come around to say hi. Comment if you want to share your own thoughts, and don’t forget to leave feedback. And if you have suggestions on what should I check out next – suggest them in the comments or in the Discord: https://discord.gg/YWQPpvE