I tend to navigate in games the same way I navigate in life. From home, it
might be 2 blocks north and a block west to the store, then a block north to
the restaurant. To get back home, I could retrace those steps or, seeing as
I like to go in straight lines, I could go a block east and then 3 blocks
south. The points of interest are always the same, although I might
encounter ever-changing obstacles such as trash cans, moving cars in the
streets, and so on. I never think about them as going 2 blocks along the
x-y coordinate. I think of them in terms of real life directions such as
north, south, east, west, up, or down.
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In God we trust.
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From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News
Hi Tom.
Personally, I have no problem conceptualizing the x y z access business,
however I have difficulties in understanding how that access changes
relative to my characters' movement.
While I can get that going up and northeast will cause all coordinates to
increase, i find it extremely difficult to plan what sort of thing will
happen were I to go down and northeast, or streight down etc.
As I have said though, my own spacial abilities are rather lacking, and I
tend to play games like shades much the same way as I navigate in real
life, ie, by remembering sets of markers and directions to get where I am
going, but with no clear mental map of how any given place relates to
another.
as you said though, if the system is examined in beta versions and
functions like view commands, have I visited here commands, useful
targiting and object recognition are in the game I think even I will find
it playable.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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