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Tracey Le
@traceyle.me

Interview with @gardens.dev & Pragma highlighting how Gardens' upcoming debut title aims to foster friendship & human connection. I'm really excited for this. pragma.gg/case-studies...

pragma.ggGardens Interactive looks to Pragma for the connective social tissue between art and tech"Pragma gave us the option of getting the best of both worlds," Knystautas said. "They gave us the ability to log in with Steam, have payment methods, a player portal, a login queue, and all of these ...
stephen bell@steph.cam

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Stephen Ashby
@seashby.bsky.social

I was just talking to a friend about multiplayer survival games/extraction shooters and how the best stories are the ones where you work together with strangers. But in many of those games there are so few ways to interact, the easiest path is often bullets. I love what Gardens I attempting here.

Tracey Le
@traceyle.me

Since the quote post was removed, I'll paste its contents from the article: "To make this happen, the studio is focusing on building up the sorts of interactions that can help build bonds between players, whether that's hoisting a friend up on your shoulders to grab fruit from a tree [...]" 🍊

Tracey Le
@traceyle.me

"The studio calls it an emergent narrative ecology. Blending elements of a sandbox game with designer Hideo Kojima's notion of strand elements, Bell calls what they're creating a Strandbox game." 🧱

Tracey Le
@traceyle.me

"With Death Stranding, Kojima explored new ground once again by introducing what he has termed the "strand genre." Put simply, this genre allows players to work together toward common goals, even if they aren't actively playing with each other in the traditional sense." gamerant.com/kojima-produ...

gamerant.comKojima Production's 'Strand' Genre ExplainedWith Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima introduced the strand genre, which allows players to affect the game world of other players in useful ways.