{"id":46561,"date":"2012-10-29T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46561"},"modified":"2012-10-29T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:05:42","slug":"most-mature-games-are-anything-but-says-amnesia-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46561-most-mature-games-are-anything-but-says-amnesia-dev","title":{"rendered":"Most “mature” games are anything but, says Amnesia dev"},"content":{"rendered":"

What makes a mature game mature? According to an Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer, it’s not necessarily what makes a game mature, but rather, what doesn’t<\/em> – and that’s all the obvious stuff like blood, bad words, and one of those “gritty” colour schemes that prominently feature fifty shades of bland.<\/p>\n

“This goal to be \u2018mature\u2019 is a problem in many games where you add gore, curse words and a palette of grey, thinking that makes the experience more adult,\u201d Frictional Games’ studio boss Thomas Grip told Beefjack.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they just end up making it even more childish.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Grip, there’s a trend in game development to make games that appeal to everybody’s inner child, and that’s part of the problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake just about any big game release and the core concepts of that game is something that a ten-year old can enjoy,” he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means that just about any games that I can enjoy today would also have been enjoyed by my ten-year-old self. But when you look at film, movies, music, etc there are tons of stuff which I like today that my ten-year-old self would not. Sure, there might be some stuff in games that I can enjoy more now that I am older, but this is almost always a minor part of the experience, like a Pixar movie.<\/p>\n

“There is nothing wrong with having games that are ageless. But when just about every game released is like this, I think it is a sign that something is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

None of Grip’s games have been marketed for anybody’s inner child, including Penumbra, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and the as yet unreleased sequel, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. But does “scary” necessarily invest them with this ambiguous maturity he’s going on about? What constitutes maturity anyway? How did I forget to buy more coffee when I went to the shop this morning? Questions without answers.<\/p>\n

Source: Beefjack<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Amnesia sequel in the works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

MechWarrior Online open beta starts tomorrow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blizzard unveils \u201cleveling\u201d system for Heart of the Swarm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Halo 4 will be Microsoft\u2019s \u201cmost expensive game ever\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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