Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. The Role of Game Artists Concept artist The game concept artist creates the initial visual concepts of the game (characters, environments, props, vehicles and other visual elements) in accordance with GDD.

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Game Design Game Designer Art Prop 88

Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Let’s begin by understanding the concept of levels in a video game. In a game, new motives, challenges, and concepts are added to the game world, while ensuring they increase the degree of difficulty at every level. Create the right balance of challenge and reward throughout the game.

Mechanics 65

Mechanics Games Playtesting Concepts 65

Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. Some prototypes I prepared (at The Game Crafter) were actually so nice that it worked against us.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Games Playtesting Game Design 130

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. And generally I maintained a pretty healthy work life balance for the most part of it.

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Dev Puzzle Prototyping Development 104

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 10, 2023

We made a pilot trailer and concept art that served as a main aesthetic code for the art style. Improvisation and direction “One of the biggest lessons we took from developing the game is to know that we have to balance between improvisation and direction. After creating some prototypes, we finally found it.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. I’ve listened to so many designers describe how through play-testing, a game came out dramatically different then their initial concept because the new version was more fun.

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Mechanics Games Game Design Game Designer 130

Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

From scribbling your ideas onto the proverbial napkin, to actually crafting prototypes, play-testing, redoing it all, and finally getting your game to reviewers, there is no shortage of details and learning curves. It’s a tough balancing act! Need help on your board game? As you can see, board game fulfillment is pretty complex.

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Game Development Game Developer Development Games 130

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

Film 52

Film Animation Animation Concepts 52

Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units. Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated).

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

We’ve only playtested it about 5-6 times – each time it was a blast , despite the balance being all wonked up – so I don’t want to get too deep into the details right now. work, is that life is too short to spend months or years trying to get a game concept working.

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Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Playtesting 52

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Concepts like seasonal content, the introduction of event-based currencies, VIP stores are only a few examples of common practices in China in the mid to late 2000s, way before any western game started to adopt them. There was no concept of events or free/ earnable content.

Content 52

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.

Studios 104

Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So this is this tough balance between being really super fast and building something really small and iterative and getting data soon and deciding what to do. They get to a prototype level. Now it's moved to concepting. You're dictating that everything below them is going to be mediocre at best in your company.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52

Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated.

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Pixel Film Art Prototyping 130

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. The word "virtual" does a lot of work, so much that we rarely question what we even mean by "virtual." So should police exist in this garden?

Simulation 130

Simulation Art Internet AI 130

Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Similar to Today’s: Current level setup (clear objectives in X moves or less) Mode: Balance Description: Collect 2 colors of gems roughly at the same pace. Developers must find the harmonious balance between ‘too easy’ and ‘pure frustration’. No similar exists today Mode: Avalanche Description: Gems fall randomly to fill the board.

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Puzzle Mobile Mobile Mechanics 69

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. For balance purposes, I limit the number of voyeurs in the maze, otherwise it can enter a deadlock where there's only voyeurs but no one for them to watch.

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