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Article #697328Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN DECEMBER 2016?
From: Werner Punz
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:53
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:53
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Am 02.01.17 um 15:10 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 10:00:37 -0700, "rms" > <rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote: > >>> What Have You Been Playing... IN DECEMBER 2016? > > >> Blade Runner (1997) > > One of the interesting things about the game was that the NPCs ran on > their own schedule, rather than being completely reactive to the > player's actions. So it was quite possible for an important event to > happen in location X while the player was futzing about in location Y. The Last Express by Jordan Mechner (also an excellent game worthwile to be played. Used a similar technique, but in case of missing an important event it turned back the clock to the point where you still can encounter it.
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