Critically acclaimed “The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt” has been lauded as game of the year, best narrative, best drama, best RPG, best technical achievement, and many more claiming over 70 awards from major conferences and review sites worldwide. This presentation serves to extract, observe, and explain how one specific mechanical shift in “The Witcher 3” helps construct a cohesive, varied, and vibrant experience for the player through analysis of primary versus secondary interactions. As “The Witcher 3” has an enormous amount of available content for discussion, this presentation chooses to analyze closely one specific, mechanical shift.
