var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-26847323-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @q2n)http://questtonowhere.com/By the time I had finished watching the first trailer for Naughty Dog’s the Last of Us back in...http://questtonowhere.com/post/17671006709http://questtonowhere.com/post/17671006709Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:03:00 -0500Naughty DogThe Last of UsInteractionGame DesignGameplayNarrativeinteractive narrativeTo say that good writing is the future of video games is, I think, a bit sort sighted. Video games...http://questtonowhere.com/post/17221656650http://questtonowhere.com/post/17221656650Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:23:46 -0500interactive storytellinginteractive narrativeunchartedSkyrimPortalMass EffectMinecraftTo What End is a game made for the 2012 Global Game Jam by Michael Molinari and Chelsea Howe. You...http://questtonowhere.com/post/16932244338http://questtonowhere.com/post/16932244338Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:17:37 -0500To What EndUnderstanding ComicsScott McCloudGlobal Game JamAbstractionInteractive NarrativeMike Tyson’s Punch Out, the classic NES game, has a rather clear theme to the core narrative that...http://questtonowhere.com/post/16539140278http://questtonowhere.com/post/16539140278Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:46:45 -0500themesPunch OutNESgame designgraphic designvisual narrativeAfter writing the piece about the way in which Bulletstorm’s scoring system can influence a player’s...http://questtonowhere.com/post/16152199259http://questtonowhere.com/post/16152199259Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:05:38 -0500Combat designCombat SystemsGod of WarBulletstormDevil May CryBatman: Arkham CityBatman: Arkham AsylumPlayer behavior I finally got around to playing Bulletstorm the other day and the thing that struck me about it,...http://questtonowhere.com/post/16013304969http://questtonowhere.com/post/16013304969Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:54:29 -0500Bulletstormgamificationgame designcombat systems I wrote the previous blog post about Valve yesterday, (even though I posted it this morning,) and...http://questtonowhere.com/post/15681399439http://questtonowhere.com/post/15681399439Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:01:00 -0500ValveSteamOnLiveRazerProject Fiona So I was in the middle of writing a new blog post about how Valve has turned their Steam sales into...http://questtonowhere.com/post/15671028910http://questtonowhere.com/post/15671028910Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:46:24 -0500valvesteamGabe NewellPC GamingI picked up Saints Row: The Third for PC a few days ago, but I’m not actually going to talk about...http://questtonowhere.com/post/13975554829http://questtonowhere.com/post/13975554829Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:46:00 -0500ValveSteamdigital distributionQuest to Nowhere: The Next Elder Scrolls Game Shouldn’t Have a Main Story:...http://questtonowhere.com/post/13605825414http://questtonowhere.com/post/13605825414Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:39:45 -0500It’s been a few weeks since Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim got released, and since then I’ve wanted to...http://questtonowhere.com/post/13595814629http://questtonowhere.com/post/13595814629Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:24:09 -0500Elder ScrollsSkyrimInteractive StorytellingOblivionWas going to write a blog post last week about Skyrim, but couldn’t find anything to really...http://questtonowhere.com/post/13117249374http://questtonowhere.com/post/13117249374Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:15:12 -0500Irrational GamesPodcastsI‘ve decided that I’m not just going to talk about video game here on the blog, but also talk about...http://questtonowhere.com/post/12607886501http://questtonowhere.com/post/12607886501Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:10:00 -0500cookingfood + heatOn the most recent episode of the Enter Your Initials podcast I talked about how Uncharted 3’s...http://questtonowhere.com/post/12480340892http://questtonowhere.com/post/12480340892Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:19:32 -0500UnchartedUncharted 2Uncharted 3Combat DesignGame DesignWhile I was writing the last piece I came to a realization about an additional rule/criteria for...http://questtonowhere.com/post/12046014926http://questtonowhere.com/post/12046014926Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:47:11 -0400objective storytellingvideogame storytellingResistance 3UnchartedUncharted 2Upon finishing Batman: Arkham City I found myself wondering how it was that I felt like Batman when...http://questtonowhere.com/post/11961980687http://questtonowhere.com/post/11961980687Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:15:08 -0400objective storytellinginteractive storytellingvideogame storytellingBatman: Arkham CityRed Dead Redemption