![]() ![]() ![]() He had a series of moments of clarity all along that theme. With Ultima IV, one of the landmark releases of the 1980s, he realized that games could have the same thematic depths as movies or books. I spent my career trying to re-create that feeling.” That night, I realized that players could be authors. “It was telling a story with Bruce and with my friends. “What was great about that moment in 1978 wasn’t being told a story by Bruce,” Spector said in a talk in Montreal. His dungeon master was Bruce Sterling, who went on to become a famous sci-fi novelist (he won Hugo awards for the Bicycle Repairman and Taklamakan). He realized that players could take part in a story and affect its direction. It was when he played Dungeons & Dragons as a youth. Spector realized he wanted to make emergent games many yeas ago. ![]() It’s a lot like the new Star Wars movie, viewed by both adults and kids alike. This new System Shock is going to be the third in a series that hasn’t has a sequel since 1999. Nostalgia games are an increasingly big part of the video game market, as fans gravitate to properties that they are familiar with - and then play those games with their kids. ![]()
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