PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the past, I’ve tried creating a few YouTube channels (starting in 2017) and TikTok accounts, trying to build an audience and, eventually, turn it into a business. After finishing IHAS, I will start to build a strong team to work on games that are beyond my scope a solo dev.” It’s used to both fight enemies and solve puzzles.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. As you and your fellow monsters toss around the village king, you attract a steady buffet of adventurers who try – poorly – to put up a fight! He won Panjam, a 48-hour board game design contest that Pangea ran in 2018.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A community manager and new game designer. A game filled with cute armoured babies on a brave mission to save their daycare from a goblin invasion. One of those games was Street Fighter. Kamo remembers, “It was the biggest game back then. But I often wondered why there weren’t more peaceful games.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2024

I think you have the wrong idea about what game designers do. We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. “My Co-founder Jakob Schmid and myself created the rhythm based puzzle platformer 140 together back in the day, and we are both interested in integrating music systems with the game design.”

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It takes me a long time to build up the energy to pour in the number of hours a game like this requires. It's a 2020-vintage roguelike, which means: A bunch of rooms with fights. Storytelling like this is a great way to juice your game with some nice texture, but know its limits. There's a few bosses.

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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. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. That is my personal aesthetic.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cult of the Lamb by Massive Monster This is a Hades-like / Binding of Issac-ish 2D action roguelike wrapped around a Don't Starve / Rimworld-y town building crafting survival system, with all the subversively violent dark cartoon humor of those references. The cult of the game industry is most powerful of all.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Larger tasks like "Build the Ice Dungeon level" are assigned to the Ice Dungeon level owner. Producers and leads create these tasks, assign them priorities, and then dole them out to the appropriate developers to complete.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the third of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? I studied Game Design at UAT in Tempe, AZ and graduated with honors in 2009.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It began with an online workshop by Joey Ansah, on fight choreography for video games. He is an English actor and fight choreographer, known for his expertise in film and video game adaptations. Alongside dancing and dining, attendees took part in a mini design thinking session.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Codex is a new take on customizable card games. Last week I posted a new Raw Game Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) where I discuss "reset buttons" in Codex (cards that blow up the board so you can possibly come back from a very bad position). Last month, I offered early access to (physical) Codex cards.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

I want to show you some of what I'm working (Codex, Flowchart, and a Fighting game) and tell you about Patreon. Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). Everyone, even non-patrons, get my main podcast about game design for free. Instead.it's fun.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Throughout high school, I played a ton of different kinds of games, but the games that me and my friends would sit around the table and talk about were games like Fallout 1 and 2, exchanging stories of what had happened the night before. The working title of the game is Free Tiya Bannet!

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That fight really stomped me." "Do Designers are sensitive and can generally pick up non-verbal cues. When I watch someone play one of my games, I can pick up when they switch from enchanted to annoyed. So I went onto Twitch and YouTube and watched how Serious Gamerz did the hard fights. But What About Different Builds?

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2018

You need to make a great game. You need to play-test it a lot – alone, with friends, with family, with blind play-testers, and with game designers. You need to build an audience on the foundation of meaningful relationships. You need to know exactly how you’re going to print and ship the game.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. Their banter is another important part of what makes the game come alive. We feel like En Garde!’s

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

These guilds mostly provide variable point bonuses based on the types of buildings the players to your left and right have built. One example would be the Environmental Agency, which is a Civic building that grants victory points for spaces in your grid that 1) don't have a building and 2) have no nearby pollution.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

I’m a solo game designer/developer of strategy games on both analog and digital platforms! I’m currently working on releasing my first game, State of Wonder , as well three other projects on the side. You fight to take the throne either through military conquest or economic prowess. What to Do at Cons.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

This is a completely different beast from a shooter.” “ Mordhau at its core has always been about melee combat”, says Jonathan Dunn, Game Designer at Triternion. This led us to design the combat not as a means to end an engagement, but as a vehicle for player expression and creativity.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

I thought it would be interesting to contrast this to Word Dad , a puzzle game made by my friend, master game designer John Cutter. The main difference between a game and a puzzle is that a puzzle has one real solution, an optimal way through the challenge. You get the same verbs, the same affordances.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Minigames are an important thing to have in an RPG: they can break things up, they can open new routes for worldbuilding and character building, and they can contribute to the worldishness of the game. Bad FIGHT pacing. Basically, players don’t want to fight the same fight over and over again.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Informed of this insight, Nexter’s creative marketing team made hugely successful ads that appeal more to the thinking side of Hero Wars, not the fighting side. In addition, players are shown that they have time to think, calculate odds of success, and upgrade their heroes before taking on a fight.

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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. That’s it.

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DameDev.tv

OCTOBER 21, 2022

(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. Fortunately, as long as the rest of the game is good, people will only complain. And honestly?

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? This is something that happens in game design a lot.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I should have predicted a $10 billion-a-year game if I wanted to sound like a true visionary. In my heart, I am a game designer. I spend most of my waking hours thinking about game mechanics and how they will make players feel. Fighting Purchase Regret with Ownership. Fighting Existential Dread.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

There are almost never fights in town – you are almost always entirely safe in town. I’m playing through Final Fantasy VII Rebirth now (which I am loving) and it’s very clear in that game, whether you are in Outside , Dungeon or Town , pretty much at all times.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The studio will provide a script for the character’s dialogue, which you can customize to fit your game’s needs. 3D characters are great for games that need to capture players’ attention but also have more complex mechanics like fighting and other interactions. 3D environment. Isometric art.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 4, 2019

With progressively deep content wrapped into a single slot machine, casual art style, a more substantial meta, strong social features, hyperactive live operations and great UX/production value, Israeli developer Moon Active has pretty much flipped the traditional Slots games design model on its head. Coin Master’s Game Systems.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

It is the no-cost matching service that gets your game in front of qualified publishers and investors in one simple process. Submit your most up-to-date playable build, pitch deck, and gameplay video. Your game gets screened internally by our industry experts within two weeks. Build & Harvest Mode in Cookie Run: Kingdom.

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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. Oily skin texture). The grand scene).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 27, 2019

But it can also be a challenge as previous iterations from an over a decade ago build unrealistic expectations and place the bar very high. Traditional fans of the series had already voiced their frustration and disappointment at the mobile game. In C&CR each unit has an associated building.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2020

As ironSource agrees , a corner stone for making a hit hypercasual game is to reduce CPIs by increasing IPMs (installs per thousand impressions). This sort of elongated production process obviously has increased project cost ramifications, which only reinforces the above mentioned design evolution - more Hybridcasual!

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