Videogames and performance – new post on Overlap

I’ve recently written a blog post for Overlap about performance in videogames. Inspired by Rockstar’s new detective game L.A. Noire (find out more and buy from Amazon.co.uk), the article covers three decades of innovation from early speech synthesis to the brand new “MotionScan” facial capture techniques.

You can read Interactive Drama and the Pixel-Perfect Performance here.

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