Another part of my Deus Ex Novel online.

I’ve uploaded another part of my Deus Ex “novel” to mediafire, the link is at the bottom of the post for anyone to download. It stops at around 3/4 through Chapter 4.

As you can see, (due to other commitments), my progress is very slow, but I suspect that I’ll finish Chapter 5 by next week and the next part for you to download will be ready for you to download, which will stop at Chapter 7.

If you enjoy reading this, leave a comment or whatever with anything you might want to tell me or ask me. And if you haven’t played Deus Ex yet, now might be a good time to buy it since GOG.com has just added the game to their catalogue, alongside the base game, you’ll recieve the official soundtrack – which is absolutely phenomenal, a couple of HD wallpapers together with a few extra goodies. If all that wasn’t enough, you’ll also show your support for GOG.com‘s great DRM free system.

Click to Download Deus Ex by Yusuf Chaudhary

 

My Top 10 Games of 2011

Below are my Top 10 games of 2011, which, if you’re interested (you are, aren’t you?), then you should by all means, read on. If you have any questions or wish to refute any of my explanations of picks, feel free to do so.

 

What I’m currently doing.

I realise that I haven’t written anything substantial on here in quite a few weeks (or months, depending on how you define “substantial”). As of now, I feel set on a path to change that. Instead of writing about game narrative in the past, present and future, I feel more inclined to write about Deus Ex’s philosophical concepts and narrative.

 

New part of Deus Ex Novel online.

I’ve just got the next part of my Deus Ex Novel uploaded to mediafire. I haven’t done much since the last part, but I thought it would be a good idea to upload what I have currently done (All you people who’ve completed the game would know why ).

So below is the link, so download it, read it and give me feedback.

http://www.mediafire.com/?c6qstcvx9wdnmbb

 

I guess I should start writing.

With all the time that has past since I put out my last post, I feel as if I should begin to write more, if only this would happen.

Since I haven’t written anything in a long time, I should tell all you guys where I am up to on what I am writing:

 

Exploring Game Narrative – Part 1

>This is the first in a series of posts in which I will be going through time and writing about the evolution of game narrative, from storytelling devices, to changes in plot and gameplay to influence the narrative and the use of mechanics to further develop the narrative of games.

First of, as this is only a preliminary post, I will just give you the details as to what I will be writing about. The articles that I will be writing about in the future will be about ‘Exploring Game Narrative – Past, Present and Future (Past, Present and Future being three separate articles, naturally).

 

 If we look at game design from the past,

 

>The First excerpt of my Deus Ex book.

>I am a kind of Deus Ex superfan, so I decided to write the game as a book, it is a hefty project, but I really wanted to do it. I have tried to stay as close to the game as possible so it may seem like I have copied the speech and just filled it in, but I assure you it was harder than that – finding the script was hard enough!

 

>The Purpose of this Blog.

>This blog of mine is to serve multiple purposes, this list is just to remind me what I will be writing about.

Gaming.

• Philosophical and social analysis of Deus Ex
• My thoughts on the current situation of games.
• Games as a way of depicting philophical/social issues in life.
• The future of video game narrative and design
• What I think makes a good game.
• The 10 best games I have ever played and why

My Projects

Ths blog will also serve the purpose if comtaining my current projects, the only one so far would be my Deus Ex novel, in which I will keep as close to the game as possible (that means using the original script!). You will soon be able to read an extract of it on here shortly.

This Blog will also be home to any of my thoughts that I my feel like writing, mostly about gaming, philosophy or literature.