Aficionados of Hideo Kojima’s Twitter feed will notice that he regularly retweets moody photographs that people have taken within A photo mode, first introduced in games by works on several conceptual levels. First, it signals that the developer has confidence in the photogenic charm of their environments, and enhances the illusion of those environments’ reality by providing a second-order way of experiencing them. Second, it enables a kind of free, peer-to-peer advertising of the game, as players share their favourite
Trigger Happy
Nov 02, 2023
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