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Thus, your menu structure is normally restricted to just a top-level list of sections or groupings, each of which can only have a single story, or a list of stories without any deeper structure — you can only have a collection of stories that share a tag, a single story, or a page of featured stories. I place it just above the start of the text, underneath the title. I did this because my book has a structural flow, and not just a collection of articles.

Being able to move back-and-forth between sections makes sense for the kind of book I am publishing, where the reader may want to refer to another part of the text for needed information. As an added bonus, the navigation bar I created adds a degree of empty space between the title and the body of text which in my opinion looks nicer. This is what the secondary navigation menu for my book looks like.

Here is how I do this: I create a story without tags and no images that Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook serve as a table of contents for a subsection of the book. There is nothing wrong with having a TOC discoverable in a search, and available for payment under the Medium Partner program.

The final piece of the navigation puzzle is to use another hyperlinked attribution line as in the above examples to the next article in sequence within the book at the end of the article. I do this before any footnotes, above the footer for the publication.

Here is what it looks like: Continue on to What is Meditation? In the apps, tapping on any one of these hyperlinks results in a quick overwrite of the present page.

Returning to the previous page, in effect, backtracking through your browsing history, is built-in to the Medium apps. Simply tap on the left angle bracket in the top left corner of your display.

Continuing to tap on this icon Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook continue to backtrack to previous pages. In the browser, the effect of clicking on one of the hyperlinks is different — a new browser page for each story opens. You can set the browsers default behavior to opening a new tab, instead of a new window, but you still end up with a lot of tabs or windows, without the ability to retrace your progress through the book in an automated way.

Instead, you have to click on the tab or window for the previous story or menu. Finally, the medium apps allow readers to bookmark a story, and even archive it for Carry On Book use, both of which are useful in reading your publication as a book.

Closing Thoughts So far the results of this have been beyond anything I thought would happen. The publication has garnered 50 followers very quickly, and a significantly higher number of visitors each day. It is, in fact, now taking off, as more readers run across it.

But this brings up the last issue with publishing a book such as this on Medium: you are limited to only a certain number of stories published each day. A visual treat with a catch, an action spectacle with an asterisk, Pariah is just the kind of game to make a reviewer turn all wishy-washy. It's great fun, but it's wholly unoriginal. It's enticing, but it should have been exciting. For every two sequences that bring to mind Half-Life 2, it has another that more resembles Shadow Ops.

Plus, it has a few bugs, one of which is on the level of a Madagascar hissing cockroach. Playing the role of Dr. Jack Mason, you pick yourself up from the crashed ship and stumble upon a melee weapon, the bonesaw which you'll probably never use and a health booster, the re-loadable and creatively named "Healing Tool. You start with four health bars, and when wounds shorten one, a period of inactivity will allow it to refill itself.

If one bar is completely obliterated, the next one in line starts to feel the pain with the ability to refill itself; and so on, until you have none.

The Healing Tool can restore full bars, and by upgrading the Healing Tool with weapon energy cores you can add even more bars. Most of the weapons in the game can be upgraded with weapon energy cores, which you'll find scattered about the landscape.

Some are right out in the open, and others are hidden in the deep, dark corners of installations. Each weapon has three upgrades, costing increasing amounts of weapons cores. Weapons include the usual assortment: a machinegun called the Bulldog, a shotgun dubbed the Frag Rifle, a grenade launcher, a sniper rifle, a rocket launcher, a laser gun plasma rifle , and a secret super-weapon.

A sample of upgrades: for the Bulldog, you can increase its rate of fire, calm its recoil, and add an armor-piercing ability; the rocket launcher can be made to fire multiple rockets at once; and the Plasma Rifle can release excess energy in deadly spheres that float toward your enemies.

The weapon upgrade system adds a touch of nifty to the otherwise rote weapons. The gameplay in Pariah is faithful to the FPS canon: it's neither groundbreaking nor a washout.

As Mason, you trek through the woodlands and base structures in search of Karina, your wayward, wounded prisoner. You take on various baddies, which, in most locales, are as common as houseflies, and it almost feels as though the level designers are using them to replace the idea of puzzles.

Pariah doesn't force you to think very much at all. There's always an obvious path stretching out before you, and your progression is hindered only by attackers and the occasional hunt for a hard-to-reach weapon energy core.

The good news is the bad guys feature strong artificial intelligence. They're truly a team: they often attack in coordinated groups, with some staying behind cover while others scramble to a better hiding place to get a cleaner shot at you. Alongside Jack there are also NPCs in the game, the most important of which is the prisoner Karina who remains a constant presence in the storyline and is rather charmingly depicted with normal-sized breasts and a scruffy ponytail.

Now that technology alows us to have facial animations and expressions, we have the ability to make our characters more believable and movie-like. Of course, it wouldn't be Unreal technology without some impressive weaponry at your command. Pariah has favourites such as the sniper rifle and grenade launcher, and also includes a few beasts like the Bulldog and a massive Redeemer-like weapon known as Titan's Fist which actually plays a part in the storyline.

Using items known as Weapon Energy Cores even enables you to customise and upgrade your weaponry. It may not have Unreal in the title, but Pariah certainly has Unreal in its heart.

With a decent storyline and single-player mission, coupled with the ever-excellent multiplayer offerings from Digital Extremes, it may just be the FPS hit of next year. We'll bring you more updates throughout the year. Storylines in games are shit. Not a new observation by any means, but one that's as true today as it was ten years ago. If a game's not a rip-off of Aliens, it's probably a rip-off of Neuromancer or The Mathx, with a level of character development slightly less sophisticated than your average porn film.

Which is why it came as such sweet music to our ears when we found out that Pariah, the new FPS from Unreal-developer Digital Extremes, is all about telling a great story. We really want to push the envelope in storytelling. I've played too many games, especially in the FPS genre, where the story is like 'ho-hum'.

Even Doom 3 - an amazing game - is at best a B-movie. We're putting a lot of effort into making a really interesting story - one where you have an emotional investment in the situation and the characters, and we're trying to do that more so than anyone has done before. The game itself is a handsome sci-fi shooter set on a far-future Earth. Like many of its ilk. The big difference, as far as James is concerned, is that these factors are matched by an equally advanced emotional aspect, something he sees as increasingly critical in today's hi-fidelity game environments.

With the level of graphical detail, the facial animation and the physics, you need to have a much better storyline that blends in with and matches that level of realism. And if you don't, it's that much more disappointing. As the technology gets better, you need to have the better actors and the story to deliver a compelling overall experience.

It might sound like hype, but Digital Extremes is leaving nothing to chance in its quest for the perfect story, enlisting the help of two Hollywood scriptwriters, spending painstaking hours casting voice-actors and generally laying out a shedload more time and cash than most FPS developers would ever dream of. We've done all sorts of research about how stories are made and what makes a great story. We're on the fifth revision of the script right now, and we still want to tweak the dialogue, make sure everything's just right.

Then, when we record the voice-actors, we're going to videotape the actors' faces too. We don't want our characters to look like manikins. Unfortunately, the results are so far a bit difficult to judge. Not only are the final voices yet to be recorded, but Digital Extremes is also being understandably cagey about the plot.

After all. What we can tell you however, is this. The year is You are Jack Mason, a suicidally depressed doctor called to Earth - now a horrific prison colony - to escort a patient off-planet. You've been told your patient is a prisoner with a dangerous virus, but when you get there you find she's also a hot ex-military chick called Karina.

On your way back, your dropship suddenly goes out of control sabotaged and crashes into a forest. All hell breaks loose, and you find yourself fighting for survival with Karina at your side. As you make your way back to the prison however, the real story starts to unfold We've tried to create a lot of really interesting mysteries right from the very beginning that draw you in, says James.

You find out who Karina really is, what the virus is and why they want to nuke the planet to get rid of her. If you don't mind a slight spoiler skip ahead a paragraph if you do , we've already discovered some of the answers. The so-called virus Karina is carrying turns out to be - no prizes - an immensely powerful weapon. She's been experimented on to be the first of a new breed of super-soldiers that can generate energy from the molecules in their bodies and project it outwards.

And needless to say. I know what you're thinking - what's the big deal? It's a bit of Jedi power mixed with a bit of military conspiracy, boiled up with a bit of despite-the-odds romance.

Seen it all before. However, it's worth remembering that your beloved Half-Life was basically a skilful re-telling of Doom - scientists inadvertently open portal to another dimension, violence ensues.

And as James points out, a good story has more to do with character and emotion than any sort of plot summary. It's the emotional experience that's the important thing. Having a good story and having some sort of emotional buy into the characters is what's going to make a game more memorable and satisfying to people. Digital Extremes is particularly mindful of the player's - your - relationship with Karina. Seeing as you inhabit the body of Jack in the game and rarely get to see him - er.

We've really worked on the relationship between Jack and Karina, says James. We didn't want them to be stereotypical game characters, we wanted them to be much more believable.