Animal Crossing engages players by giving them tools to do whatever they feel like, a large part of which is designing clothing, wallpaper, flags, and even dialogue to personalize their towns. Mario Kart DS has customizable emblems. And then there's Drawn to Life, which looks like the ultimate example of the in-game drawing tool, with the whole game designed around player-created characters and items.What is it that is so captivating about putting your own work into a game? We were really amused by the Drawn to Life demo, specifically because we got to watch our creations move while we were still creating them. But why are our crude scratchings often so much more interesting to us than professionally-designed art? Or is it just us?
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5-19-2007 @ 5:42PM
darkside02 said...
I think it's the fact that your seeing something you made put into a videogame and it's kinda cool even if you make it look like crap. you get that "wow that awsome i did that. kinda feel and you can show it off to your friends" i think that's the part about this game that i like the most is it lets you have the run of it with your imagination and im going to be picking this up
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