Comments on: Editoral: Adventures in DayZ

By: Nate 'Bup' Liles

Nate 'Bup' Liles — Thu, 22 May 2014 12:03:35 +0000

@Mel: yeah, sounds like a typical story from DayZ. I do find some of the fun to be looting towns and cities while trying to meet up with your friends.

@Lusipurr: No.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Tue, 20 May 2014 23:43:52 +0000

This is just an open-world sandbox mod. It is not a game. There are no victory conditions. There are no goals. It might be an entertainment, or a pastime, or even a hobby–but a game? No, for the very same reason that playing in a sandbox, or building with Lego, or learning how to grow turnips are not ‘games’. You might create for yourself some goals, but since they are not systemic goals, it is not a game.

A game has systemic victory and defeat conditions. If they have to be imposed from without, it’s not a game any longer, but rather something else which has been ‘gamified’ by externals.

By: Andrew 'Mel' Melcon

Andrew 'Mel' Melcon — Tue, 20 May 2014 17:36:14 +0000

I played the DayZ mod back when it was relatively new. Fun game, except the controls were fucking bonkers.

The one story I managed to craft in my short time playing was when I played online with a friend. We spawned pretty far apart along the beach (where apparently you still spawn in the standalone version). He said he was near a lighthouse. I said I thought I knew which one, so I began traveling West to meet him. (this was back when you needed to pull up a map of the game in a separate browser window. Dunno if that’s still the case) Anyway, after much sprinting and dodging of zombies I find him atop the lighthouse. He sees me.

He then gets too excited and falls off the lighthouse, dies and spawns back where I was originally, the end.