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Don’t read if you haven’t finished BioShock, but there’s some great story-related conversation here with Ken Levine about some of the ins and outs of the story and how it works.
Author Archives: Ryan Markel
You know that sound you just heard? That was my mind. Blown.
I desperately want to join in on forum threads and read up on the Internet about what I have just experienced this evening, but since I have not yet completed all the tasks in front of me, and I’m trying very, very hard to remain spoiler-free, I am simply avoiding all talk about it with others.
However, I do have this avenue of communication, so I’m going to write down a few thoughts about what I’ve been doing most of the night for the past three or four nights, because it has been amazing.
BioShock spoilers will abound after the break. I urge you: if you ever plan to play BioShock (and you should), you should not read ahead until you have had a chance to give the game a playthrough and at least decided if it’s for you or not. Playing the game without being spoiled in any way has been tremendously rewarding for me so far in the process, and I would hope never to disrupt that kind of enjoyment for someone else.
Know this, however: BioShock is so finely crafted and meticulously designed that it is not merely intended to be played, or even to be experienced, but to be relished the way one appreciates a gourmet meal or a fine wine. When your time comes, I hope you will take every opportunity to enjoy it.
Whoops! Sorry about that.
Not realizing that I had done so, I mistakenly left an upgrade to the most recent beta build of WordPress in my directory without running the corresponding database upgrade; this left my site partially inaccessible for a decent portion of the afternoon.
I’m also running unstable WordPress code for the time being, so if things get a little weird around here, I apologize.
On the other hand, WordPress 2.3 adds some really interesting changes, not the least of which is a new tagging interface that offers an interesting tandem relationship between categories in the old style and tags. It’ll take some time to work through (and tags are not going to appear in posts until I can alter the page template to include them). The changes are really quite nice, and the administration interface handles the differences very nicely.
links for 2007-08-26
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Games used to be hard. Really hard. And you had to play through them in one shot. So why, and what was the art behind game difficulty?
links for 2007-08-25
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The first of the inevitable articles about BioShock and its game mechanic of the creepy Little Sisters as adversaries… or friends.
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