It seems to say so little, but is totally effective. I admire that. I try to leave a lot unsaid in my games. It can be hard to NBA 2K18 MT resist though.Are there any other parallels between your games and the Preludes?The Preludes are really expressive. That's another thing that drew me to them. They came at the beginning of the Romantic period, when music was moving into a more expressive and less formal period. The game ideas I'm working with, as well as the games I am playing right now, are
moving into Romantic and more expressive territory, instead of being overly formalistic.Why did you decide to Cheap NBA 2K17 MT make a game based on the Preludes?I was listening to those pieces while sketching out the game. I'm not a huge classical music buff, so I Googled them. I found a quote by Robert Schumann. He was a friend and contemporary of Chopin's, and he described the Preludes as being like ruins. ("They are sketches, beginnings of etudes, or, so to speak, ruins, individual eagle pinions,
disorder and wild confusions.")I had understood them as being sketches, but the ambiguity between whether something is a sketch or a ruin, a remainder of something else, fit in cleanly with my idea for the game. I was working with the idea of a longterm relationship, in which the characters have separated. It had a sense of incompletion.Is the story autobiographical?To an extent. My girlfriend has had a dog for 11 years. Last winter, the dog got sick. She hurt her leg and she
to be boarded at the vet. She had never been boarded, and they had never been separated for very long. It really upset my girlfriend and the nba18mt dog. It was really powerful to see the bond they had. They had a wordless connection.Your games often have a sense of sadness to them. A House in California is vaguely nostalgic. Ruins has a feeling of incompletion. Why do you think that is?Games cover some territory really well. Exhilaration, for example. Games have covered that thoroughly.