Bye Bye Contextual

     I have now finished with my contextual studies, there was only a little left to finish off so this did not take long. I brought up one last theme within it which was how game saves have opened up a new type of mechanic. Here I looked particularly at games such as Prince of Persia and the indie classic Braid.

These titles have used in game memory to support a new style of gameplay where players can, or even must, backtrack in time to complete the level. Using game memory to innovate a completely new type of game mechanic definitely indicates that saving capability has changed the nature of gaming therefore this will definitely be included within my essay.