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The Bottom Feeder
OCTOBER 18, 2023
At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. Turns out, if your game design is a little lacking, all you need to do is spackle on a bit of "Make bars fill up to make numbers get bigger to make bars fill up." Designers think making an RPG is easier than it is.
The Bottom Feeder
JUNE 12, 2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 Has Mountains of Stuff Over the years, I've tended to make my game designs cleaner. One of the best articles ever written about game design is about Magic: The Gathering. It's art, after all. In the tabletop game, wands recharge every day. That is my personal aesthetic.
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Designer Notes
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Hi everyone, I’m Soren Johnson, and welcome to You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop Here are the published games that I’ve worked on over my career, some of which I will touch on over the next hour. Certainly, that can be said for video games. I would never have bet on a ultra-detailed dwarf simulator using ASCII art.
Designer Notes
AUGUST 31, 2021
The following is an excerpt from the Designer Notes for Old World. The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The first Civilization game was like a game design thunderbolt, sent from the heavens and marking everything it touched.
SOVEREIGN MOON
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
This process was inspired by a Picasso quote, where here states that: The Importance of Play & Experimentation When Designing Environments. Now in the world of indie game design, I find it beneficial to take a similar approach. Color Pallet: My third goal for today was to find a color pallet for my game.
Keith Burgun
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Between that and the fact that I’m a game designer, and one who is also working on my own RPG, I feel like I’m in a pretty good position to give some thoughts on this latest entry in a way that might be helpful to other Final Fantasy fans. But overall, this game is just not worth the time it takes to play.
Mnenad
JULY 8, 2018
But before I explain the narration, I want to jump back in time when I started building the endless terrain generator. But on the other hand, this fact made me aware of my competence as a game designer. Some just ignore the player while all of them do currently look for food in the endless terrain.
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