<![CDATA[Stories by Tomas Nyx Garrett on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@tomas.ca.garrett?source=rss-454edca65eec------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*AYEOxmJT3r41krBC0Jdx1g.jpeg Stories by Tomas Nyx Garrett on Medium https://medium.com/@tomas.ca.garrett?source=rss-454edca65eec------2 Medium Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:39:17 GMT <![CDATA[Your Karma Meter Is the Only Witness]]>

A morality system judges who you are. A reputation holds what people think happened. Most games build the first and let the world read it.

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There is a question I want to be able to ask when a game reacts to something I have done: how did you find out? If a guard catches me…

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Who controls the food, who has the authority to act, and what happens when their interests collide.

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A want tells you what a group does when they're winning. They're almost never winning.

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Hey everyone. Sorry for the break in the posts, last one was July 10th. Work’s been eating most of my hours lately.

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Count the goals in your current playthrough that the world gave you unasked: a rank you lack, a reputation you haven’t earned, a door that…

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Games spend years on class identity and give every faction the same sword

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The little things that quietly tell you a world isn’t real

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Adored or attacked. The entire drama of being distrusted got cut from the build.

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There is a quest early in Crimson Desert where you break into an asylum. People are being tortured inside it. You came for one person, you…

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