Feature: Game Design Essentials - 20 RPGs

posted 7/2/2009, 259d 20h 25m ago

In the latest in his popular Game Design Essentials series, which has previously spanned subjects from Atari games through 'mysterious games', 'open world games', 'unusual control schemes' and 'difficult games', writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly makes them tick -- and why you should care. Fittingly, Harris introduces the piece with a discussion of ...