Hide and Seek, incomplete information, and killer apps: Luigi’s Ghost Mansion for the Wii U
Luke Henderson
I used to create cardboard partitions that I could slide over my television in order to hide information from other players in split screen games. There is no tension when someone can flick their eyes over to your side of the screen and see where you’re hiding, and this is the genius of the Wii U: Developers can now create multiplayer games that withhold information from one or more players. Once you introduce the concept of incomplete information, the options for game play open up in fascinating ways.
