Sent förra året berättade Ken Levine att han vill undersöka icke-linjära spelmodeller, då linjärt narrativ tenderar att skada återspelbarheten.
"Right now it's just a thought experiment in my head, I'll probably do a talk at GDC about it, but I have some really interesting experiments going on in my head", sa han då, och nu har den presentationen ägt rum.
"Narrative doesn't lend itself to systems. I'm proud of what we did with linear narrative, but I've personally been doing it for over 19 years."
"The problem with narrative is that you sort of have to keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. That gets time consuming. That gets expensive. And you're devoting years and years of your life to this one sort of big moment. You ship the game, and it comes out, and people play the game and it's 12 hours long and people have a great experience and you see cosplayers and fans for years like that, but you don't have that constant engagement with the audience."
Levine hoppas kunna åstadkomma ett spel där saker och ting händer på grund av spelarens handlingar, men han vill inte att det ska bli för komplext.
"You're going to have to balance these things off one another, but they're all going to be transparent to you. We're going to have to have a limited number of them so you can track them all and it doesn't become a giant spreadsheet that overwhelms you."
Det hela låter högintressant, tycker vi, och det ska bli spännande att se vad Levine hittar på framöver. På tisdag är det förresten dags för Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2.