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I'm curious as to artist/game developers thoughts about the inclusion of unspoken themes into games.

For example, one game I once saw was a RoboTron game which slowly zoomed out, showing more and more enemies, until the player is just a speck and the enemies are leigon. This was an unspoken message about the futility of "man vs. everything".

Has anyone else ever tried to inject an unspoken theme into a game design?

Quote:I'm curious as to artist/game developers thoughts about the inclusion of unspoken themes into games.

For example, one game I once saw was a RoboTron game which slowly zoomed out, showing more and more enemies, until the player is just a speck and the enemies are leigon. This was an unspoken message about the futility of "man vs. everything".

I dunno if you can say something like that IS a certain unspoken message, unless of course whoever had that idea has said so. The creator's original intent/interpretation may be vastly different than yours.
But anyway, yes, sometimes I do... Other times it's just trying to make a good story or design... I think music is the main thing I put meaning/messages into, game design is more of a 'fun' thing for me I guess.

The readme file implied that meaning, as I recall.

Not that developement has gotten very far yet, but there will be lots of "hidden" messages in FV.