Monument Valley: Developer: ustwo studio Ltd. Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone For this critical play, I decided to go with a phone game again and download Monument Valley. This game is an overall aesthetically pleasing, puzzle game. How Puzzle Mechanics Influence Game Experience To understand how the mechanics influence the experience of the game, we must first understand…

Gone Home: Developer: The Fullbright Company LLC. Platforms: Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS Gone Home had an interesting title, so I decided to play it for my critical play. This game is available on many platforms, including iOS which is not always the case. I wanted to switch things up and…

Firewatch: Developer: Campo Santo Platforms: Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo Switch, PC After my failed attempt and excuse to leave the house to go to GameStop to buy Firewatch, I was told that there is no hard copy of this game. Maybe I should have looked into this beforehand. Anyways, I went back…

Examples Evocative Batman: Arkham City is a game that really makes you feel like you are in a Batman movie or in Batman’s world. Enacting Super Mario Bros there are a lot of micronarratives that players encounter between levels. Embedded Call of Duty Modern Warfare Story Mode has embedded stories. As you play the story mode, you start to unveil more and more of the story. Emergent Poptropica allows players to freely walk around a world and complete whatever task you want.

My redesigns for “Cheese or font?” are shown in the image above. For these redesigns, I focused on typography, color and contrast, and alignment and proximity. Starting from the top left, I wrote the word down in large letters so that it would stick out more. I left the text…