It occured to me the other day, that many of the Browser games we post tend to get burried simply becasue they aren't included in the title of any posts, so I though I'd post the following gme both in the Browser thread and as a seperate thread.
The Snowfield:
In The Snowfield you are a lone soldier wandering the aftermath of a great battle. It is the dead of winter and you won't last long in the cold. But you are not alone.
Research Statement
The Snowfield represents an attempt to make a simulation-based narrative game according to a special method for developing such games, a method designed to avoid the need for complex A.I. or massive content generation. The idea was not to relying on codified narrative theories or formulas - like three-act structures, etc. - but rather assume "what makes a good story" cannot be systematized and instead must be arrived at organically via extensive user testing.
The method involved designing and creating many different "building blocks" - characters, behaviors, and/or objects - that stories could be made out of. Through observation of how players played with them in early builds, increasingly fine-tuned decisions were made that would push towards a final product. In other words, The Snowfield is an experiment in seeing how inverting the traditional relationship between Design and QA can streamline a development process for creating highly improvisational, simulation-based narrative worlds on a tight schedule.
Video:
You can watch a video of game play HERE
You can play the game online HERE
Minimum Recommended Requirements:
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OSX 10.6 and above.
Intel Dual Core Processor (or equivalent)
2 GB of RAM
Discrete Graphics Card
Graphic Card Shader Model 3.0