Game Design Aspect

JULY 15, 2020

As an educational design expert, I feel like this time alone with my daughter has not only been incredibly valuable, but also magical. I don't often write personal essays, but in 2019, I did a reading of 3 personal essays about growing up in the Hudson Valley area. "

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the thirteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. This week, I want to zero in on the subject of making the perfect board game rule book.

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iXie gaming

MAY 26, 2023

By following the do’s and avoiding the don’ts, you can ensure that your game stands out in the competitive PC gaming market. In this guide, we will cover a range of topics, including best practices for game design, effective marketing strategies, and tips for optimizing game performance.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 15, 2023

An example could be: "The project you're currently on is getting close to the first Beta test, and you've just finished implementing an important game system, the Skill Tree. During the following Playtesting session, the game designer is unimpressed with the current state, mentioning missing features.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gameplay testing , also called playtesting, is the process of having testers play a game to identify issues, collect feedback, and enhance its quality before official release. This process can be done at different phases of game development. This ensures more efficient and customized solutions to the game.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The first part of this so-called “Great Utility Update” began during Alpha 12 with a few fundamental mechanical changes, but since then the project remained on the to-do list until 1) even more content was added to the game, and 2) we collected more info about what items people were and were not using, and why.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 16, 2015

Round 1 features returning characters Grave, Jaina, Midori, and Setsuki while Round 2 includes the new characters Quince, Onimaru, Bal-Bas-Beta, and Troq. “I I originally developed Yomi so that everyone could experience the kind of dynamics that happen in fighting games,” said Sirlin.

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Game Errors

MARCH 26, 2023

Minecraft is an excellent example of what happens when good ideas meet in one place, with simple, accessible, and minimalist performance and the vast potential that game design offers to different groups of end users.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people.

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Game Designing

MARCH 1, 2023

In this article, we will go over what exactly a game engineer does, what kind of education you will need to become one, and how much money you can expect to make. Game Engineer vs Developer or Designer? It is not uncommon for the titles game designer, developer, and engineer to be used interchangeably.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Every aspect of the game’s development has been thoughtfully considered, from ensuring each card has a rich backstory to using a low carbon footprint blockchain and efficient cloud-based technologies like Amazon GameLift on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS makes those calls completely secure; the whole environment feels stable and scales well.”

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

Jordan Weisman: Sure, Our goal with Adventure Forge is to empower people to make games that tell the stories they’ve always wanted to tell. GameDaily: When is Adventure Forge coming out, and how will the revenue split work for monetized games on your platform? GameDaily: Can you explain Adventure Forge in your own words?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It famously only added any crafting because the dev team saw it in UO during beta. It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do. At launch, it had no quests, really, despite the name. Zones had level ranges (though infamously, lots of “zone sweeper” mobs). Breadcrumbs, dialogue trees, cutscenes, progression paths.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

From the perspective of fantasy art design, it is an ideal goal to set the whole world to be coherent, unobtrusive, and logically self-consistent - But this may not be the ultimate goal of online game design.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

For example, DSFs are a new type of map added in Beta 11 , and as with most other locations you can happen across unexpected events which have nothing to do with you at all, just inhabitants of the world driven by their respective history, relations, and goals. Good balance is of course another important contributing factor of fairness.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

I had worked at Lucasfilm for 8 years and learned a lot, not just about game design and programming, but also marketing, PR, and production and I felt like I needed to try it all for myself. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren't interested.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 17, 2018

I had worked at Lucasfilm for 8 years and learned a lot, not just about game design and programming, but also marketing, PR, and production and I felt like I needed to try it all for myself. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren’t interested.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Because I'm a gamer and game designer, it shouldn't be surprising that I like watching games. The Aztecs were pretty terrific game designers. My last post got lots of harassment, so Substack let me into their new mod features beta. I don’t just watch games. The Aztecs had their own Super Bowl.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Now of course I wouldn’t go as far as to undermine the fundamental design and make this a widespread feature, but as I was working on Beta 12 an opportunity presented itself to make this an isolated special mechanic, and, though very doubtful at first, I was pretty interested in seeing if it was even possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

You didn't spent that much yet, as this was only done with mostly programmers and one or two artists/animators/game designers. to finalize the game. Fill it with assets, go towards Beta! Beta is pretty much finishing the whole, entire final game (save for bugs and maybe small very minor tweaks).

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, that moved to beta, then it's moved to Alpha, now it's moved to first playable. And, you know, when we founded our company and one of the very first things we did before we ever raised money or ever did service work was we made the images of our game. Now it's moved to concepting.

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