Last week Microsoft's time-bending shooter, Quantum Break released worldwide, blending a live-action show with a traditional third-person shooter. Whether you've completed the main story or only played the game's first act, it's hard to deny the game's complex, interwoven narrative is one ...
While it's true that gunplay isn't the star of the show in Quantum Break, it deserves better treatment than it's received. When you aren't engaged in combat, you're usually exploring environments that offer narrative clues like documents and emails. These offer a wealth of supplementary inf...
The second quantum revolution, which may lead to a major technological breakthrough in science and technology with the creation of quantum computers, was the term coined by the French physicist Alain Aspect to describe changes in physics, the beginnings of which date back to the 1960s. To ...
GREG LOUDEN (senior narrative designer): During pre-production onQuantum Breakthere was a goal to create this key set-piece action sequence with a ship crashing into a lift-bridge that would then freeze during a stutter in time, forcing the player to navigate the scene and escape. The premis...
introducing mathematical tricks that relax the associated overheads or enable computations on logical qubits to be conducted more easily, without interfering with the computations being performed. And the gains have been enormous, bringing the break-even point, where it’s actually better to perform q...
It’s the narrative equivalent of the uncanny valley. The more real you to try to make the presentation, the clearer the inconsistencies become. Nonetheless, I went into Quantum Break not quite sure how it worked, and not all that interested in another time travel yarn. But I’d forgotten...
NIELSEN: One fun reason for working on quantum computing is you’re trying to build the largest-scale, fully quantum-coherent systems that have ever been built. Whenever you push on into a new regime like that, there’s some chance that things break down. If something was to break down ...
(Czech or Polish) New Wave film from the 1960s, black and white, about a couple on vacation, a car at an intersection, and something about a sailboat on a lake—almost more of a vague impression than anything narrative I could pin down. A moment’s reflection on waking told me it ...
(see examples below). We used all sorts of tricks and techniques to create narrative flows within a static medium: We manipulated hierarchies of type, we tweaked color palettes, we adjusted layouts and compositions to guide readers’ eyes across a page, an atlas plate, or a large-format ...
"Quantum Of Solace" has an impressive opening sequence. It has high speed car chases with lots of collision and gunshots. The ultra short scenes (all under one second each) and the shaky camera gives urgency and thrill, but it is so hard to actually work out what is happening. ...