ACCHA'S PROFILE

Most games are very clear and straightforward about the tone of the story and the nature of the characters, and so it's extremely easy to tell when people are lying to you and when you're going to be backstabbed. It's a given that the generic NPC will almost always tell the truth, and if they're not, there's always a flag for untrustworthy NPCs (shady speech habits, ugly sprite, etc.) This gives the sense that the creator of the game is doing as much as they can to "ease" the way for the player, to an extent, and let them have fun.

Deceiving the player, though, is the opposite of that. Setting false first impressions, giving incomplete and misleading information, maybe having people tell absolute lies-- except the player doesn't know that that's happening, no, they just believe everything is A-OK, the stuff that the game dev leads them to do is the right thing! Right?

A game I played recently that did this sort of thing well (where the player has to disobey the "person controlling the scene") is The Stanley Parable, but I can't think of many other games where this was done and wonder if there's a reason for that. I'm personally interested because, well, my series is dependent on this.

So what do you think about misleading and lying to your players? Is it a scummy thing to do? Is it the type of thing that can only be done well in certain circumstances? Is it cheesy and overused? Can you think of interesting ways it can be used, or ways it can be done better?

(note: to clarify, this is about the narrative and perhaps how gameplay ties into/affects the narrative, but doesn't refer to lying about game controls or the technical aspects of playing the game.)

author=ankylo
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/225810/RPG_Maker_heads_to_mobile_with_new_porting_abilities.phphttp://steamcommunity.com/app/220700/discussions/0/616188473144961525/?insideModal=1#c616188473156609766

Hey,
The title on this release is a bit misleading.
We are working on some mobile porting solutions (and will be selling an ios/android version of Undefeated which was made in RPG Maker VX Ace).

There's still a lot of manual work and troubleshooting involved so we are quite far away from a public release of this.

Mitchell

damn.

♪99 little bugs in the code
99 little bugs in the code
Take one down, patch it around
117 little bugs in the code♪

i came here expecting cute fat men and now i walk away, disappointed

omfg