Map

This has probably come up before but I like different opinions and perspectives ...

Fast Travel vs. Riding — Which I Prefer

On Fast Travel vs. Walking — A Design Perspective

Fast Travel vs. Riding — Which I Prefer

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking — A Deeper Look at Exploration, Meaning, and Player ...

Temporal Experience and Narrative Pacing — Why I Prefer the Journey

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking — Traversal, Tempo, and Lived Time

Travel Time as Narrative Space

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking: Serendipity, Discovery, and Environmental Storytell...

Slow Traversal Encourages Incidental Discovery

Why I Prefer Riding — Environmental Storytelling Needs the Journey

Skill Acquisition and Meaningful Practice

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking — Skills Built by Repeated Traversal

The Value of Traveling Over Fast Travel

Embodiment, Presence, and Immersion — Short Explanation

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking — Movement and Embodied Experience

Why Traversal Deepens Immersion

Risk, Investment, and Meaningful Choices — Why I Prefer Riding/Walking

The Moral Weight of Traversal

How Fast Travel Flattens Choice

When Fast Travel Is Justified

When Fast Travel Makes Sense

Fast Travel as a Quality-of-Life and Accessibility Option

Design Implications and Hybrid Solutions for Fast Travel vs. Riding

Dynamic Traversal — Keep the Journey Interesting

Forced Downtime as Meaningful Design

Conditional Fast Travel — A Balanced Compromise

Fast Travel with Consequences — Making the Choice Matter

The Road Taken — Psychological and Ethical Dimensions of Choosing to Ride/Walk

Choosing the Journey — A Philosophical Note

Why Preferring Slow Traversal Can Become Elitist — A Brief Explanation

Why Traversal Matters — A Short Explanation of Marc Laidlaw’s Essays

Autonomy and Engagement in Przybylski, Rigby & Ryan (2010)

Self-Determination Theory — Why Choosing the Journey Feels Better

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking — Notes on Environmental Storytelling

Embodied Journeying — Why the Walk Matters

In Defense of the Journey — Against Fast Travel

Why Traversal Matters — A Short Explanation

Why I Prefer Riding/Walking — Autonomy and Engagement in Gameplay