Tag: Game Mechanics

How Outer Wilds Works? Why does it’s exploration surpass Outer Worlds and No Man’s Sky?

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Hello I’m Kinglink and today we’re going to talk about How Outer Wilds work?

Outer Wilds is a game released last year by Mobius Digital. If you haven’t played it, it’s a space exploration game. Your player is an astronaut and they also are about to be given a spacecraft to go to other planets in the star system and explore the worlds you find.

Now before we dive in here, I’m going to theme this video with a focus on space exploration. I’m going to be talking about Outer Worlds a bit, which is a game from Obsidian Entertainment. But there’s another example we’re going to talk about. If we say large scale exploration, is there a specific game that comes to mind? One not regarded too well? For me, I have to talk about No Man’s Sky by Hello Games. It’s just the perfect example of how not to do exploration.

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How Stardew Valley Work? The Three Main Phases of Farm Simulators

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Hello, I’m Kinglink and today let’s talk about “How Stardew Valley works?”

Stardew Valley is a very popular game, but the one place that I feel can be explored at a deeper level is the mechanics that the game uses to make its core systems work and remain interesting to users. I find that there is almost an addictive feel to Stardew Valley at times, where the player just wants to play one more day. Let’s explore what causes players to keep coming back to Stardew Valley? Hopefully, we’ll be able to examine these mechanics beyond just how they feel but also begin to understand how they are designed?

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