High-Level Storytelling Design

Introduction I recently started to play the demo for the upcoming adventure game Primordia . I really like the art-style, the setting, theme...

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Humble beginnings of the HPL Engine

I recently stumbled upon some really old videos with gameplay tests in the HPL engine and decided they would be fun to show off. This was no...

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Hiring: Level Designer Wanted

Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia and Penumbra series, seeks a Level Designer for a new game project. Taking what we learned from ou...

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Amnesia - Two Years Later

Introduction It has now passed a little more than two years since we launched Amnesia and one year since the last report , so time for anoth...

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Tech Feature: HDR Lighting

Introduction Hello my name is Peter and I’m the new graphics and engine programmer. New is not really the correct word since I have been wor...

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The Self, Presence and Storytelling

At GDC last week I gave a talk called "The Self, Presence and StoryTelling". There will be a version of it up on the GDC Vault i...

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Horror Tip: Slender

Slender is a short horror game really similar to Hide. You walk (or run) around in a monotone environment looking for notes, while there is ...

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Thoughts of The Walking Dead (ep1)

Introduction I played through the first episode of The Walking Dead recently and few stuff popped up that I thought was worth discussing. F...

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Thoughts on Lone Survivor

Introduction I just a finished Lone Survivor and because there is so much interesting stuff going on in it, I thought it was worth to write...

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Humble Indie Bundle V

We at Frictional Games are yet again part of a Humble Indie Bundle and this time it is quite the pack. Our contribution is Amnesia: The Dar...

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Unconventional Design Tips

The general advice for upstarting developers seem to be to focus on mechanics, building fast a prototype, getting the core game fun and and ...

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We are hiring: Script Programmer wanted!

Yet again we find ourselves in the need for adding a new member to our company. We are looking for a script programer with C++ syntax styled...

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We are hiring: Environment artist wanted!

Once again, Frictional Games is hiring and this time we are looking for an environment artist. The employment will first only be a on projec...

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Narrative not a game mechanic?

Introduction I just stumbled upon Raph Koster's "Narrative is not a game mechanic" and found that it contains some stuff that...

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