Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The game utilizes dedicated servers to handle real-time interactions, player movements, and voice chat across multiple virtual worlds. Optimizing bandwidth usage through data compression and server load balancing is crucial for large-scale multiplayer experiences. What worked?

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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. In the tabletop game, wands recharge every day. That said, the balance in this game is very strong.

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Fighting Writing Puzzle Terrain 100

Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As we navigate this evolving terrain, perhaps the future of education is not about replacing traditional methods but integrating games as a complementary tool. In a world where ‘curiosity is king,’ game-based learning offers a compelling avenue for fostering a lifelong love for knowledge and exploration. .”

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Indy Platformer AAA Education 105

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. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). and not be compatible with many of the encounters anyway, since knowing which direction the player will enter from is often an important part of their design. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. Such a model could also inform our discussions about game design, suggesting directions for design exploration and expanding our palette of analytical tools and techniques. Modeling depth may help us better understand how to think about these things.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Lost Ark outshines other MMO games because each element mentioned above is polished to the next level. Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Though, all of these foibles could be found in other games as well. Let’s use the Witch class as an example.

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