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How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

At that point, I’m getting close to a prototype. In a game I co-designed with Matt Greenleaf, which is currently unpublished, I had come up with a mechanic that was whenever a player made a move, the game state would either go to imbalance or balance. There’s more where this came from.

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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023

Deconstructor of Fun

Diversify revenue model Cilingir urged game-makers with games skewed heavily toward either ad or IAP-based monetisation to balance their revenue mix. You guys will be likely more nimble than EA and these other publishers out there.” He concluded: “Nothing lasts forever – growth doesn’t last forever, but neither does decline.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly. There's something interesting between these two notions of simulation.