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| estimates that social casino gaming is a $1.7 billion industry. By 2016 that figure is expected to grow to $2.4 billion and could go even higher if online gambling regulations are lifted to allow real money gambling specifically in the United States which generates the most social casino revenue despite having to rely on virtual currency .Developers are becoming increasingly interested in entering the space which has become so big as to spawn its own individual conferences. For Klei Entertainments Nels Anderson making a great stealth action video Runescape game meant throwing out a lot of a lot of the genres existing tropes.Anderson was lead designer on Mark of the Ninja a stealth Runescape game that brought an unconventional twist to the genre through its 2D side scrolling vantage point.While the Runescape game casts aside certain stealth elements laid out by Runescape games such as Splinter Cell Thief and Tenchu it does still rely heavily on cornerstones of stealth Runescape game design.With Mark of the Ninja Anderson explained we wanted to make sure that that the fundamental experience of FF14 Gil being a ninja was brought across and everything else supported that. After breaking the genre down into its fundamentals Anderson established Mark of the Ninjas five stealth guidelines he called the Heresies of the ninja. These heresies broke the rules laid out by stealth designs predecessors. Heresy One Transparent Stealth SystemIn contrast to most stealth Runescape games where you have a visibility meter or something like that in Mark of the Ninja light and darkness are totally binary Anderson said. The way your character looks immediately reveals if you are visible or not if you are concealed you are in black with red highlights and in light you are fully colored. This on off approach had one caveat however. If you are at the absolute edge of a guards field of vision they will catch a glimpse of you. They will start to move towards you quickly but not on full alert.The binary light system and the fact that all other information |
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