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03-23-2016, 10:00 PM
How Telltale Games is taking steps to fix its creaky, old engine
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Telltale's episodic adventures kind of suck sometimes.
The stories aren't the problem. Telltale Games has an ever-growing stable of storytellers and story facilitators. It's constantly improving and redefining the **tion of how player choice can influence a story.*
SEE ALSO: A 'Batman' game that lets you choose between playboy and hero (http://mashable.com/2016/03/19/batman-telltale-games-details/)
The problem is the tech powering those stories. It's old. It's been stretched to run on the stunning range of hardware that still supports new Telltale releases. The *****s are easy to spot, and they've been showing for a long time.
"There's been a really long effort to upgrade most of the engine," Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner told Mashable.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/telltale-games-engine-fixes/)
More about Telltale Games (http://mashable.com/category/telltale-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gaming (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Entertainment (http://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/pWpLG_3MFL4
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Telltale's episodic adventures kind of suck sometimes.
The stories aren't the problem. Telltale Games has an ever-growing stable of storytellers and story facilitators. It's constantly improving and redefining the **tion of how player choice can influence a story.*
SEE ALSO: A 'Batman' game that lets you choose between playboy and hero (http://mashable.com/2016/03/19/batman-telltale-games-details/)
The problem is the tech powering those stories. It's old. It's been stretched to run on the stunning range of hardware that still supports new Telltale releases. The *****s are easy to spot, and they've been showing for a long time.
"There's been a really long effort to upgrade most of the engine," Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner told Mashable.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/telltale-games-engine-fixes/)
More about Telltale Games (http://mashable.com/category/telltale-games/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Gaming (http://mashable.com/gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Entertainment (http://mashable.com/entertainment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/pWpLG_3MFL4