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Op Ed

[Dec 01, 2010, 11:40 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

BitMob - Why Humor in Games Fails and How to Make It Succeed.
It's not enough just to have well-written dialogue or jokes. These days, you need voice talent that can make them sound funny. And even if your actors are solid, you need the right rhythm, cadence, and inflection -- a hard thing to pull off when many games still have tiny pauses between each character's lines. It's especially difficult in role-playing games, where you wait as you choose a line of dialogue from a conversation tree. It breaks the timing of the joke. And as any comedian will tell you, timing is everything.

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Re: Op Ed

Dec 1, 2010, 17:07

JoeNapalm

Link is currently down, so I haven't been able to read the article... Is the premise of this that humor fails in all games, or is it addressing specific instances when it does. If it's the more general sense, I'd suggest he's playing the wrong games - plenty of games have humor that works. Heck, he cites RPGs as the most problematic...those are usually where it seems to work best. -Jn- Ifriti Sophist

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Comment [quote="JoeNapalm"Dec 1, 2010, 17:07] Link is currently down, so I haven't been able to read the article... Is the premise of this that humor fails in all games, or is it addressing specific instances when it does. If it's the more general sense, I'd suggest he's playing the wrong games - plenty of games have humor that works. Heck, he cites RPGs as the most problematic...those are usually where it seems to work best. -Jn- Ifriti Sophist [/quote]

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