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The 2nd edition of Clockwork Game Design is now available

Keith Burgun

This is just a quick post to let you all know that the 2nd edition of CLOCKWORK GAME DESIGN, my second book on game design, is now available from the publisher’s site. Some quick thoughts on this edition: It is massively, massively improved in my opinion from the first edition. Hey y’all!

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Tips For Writing a Video Game Story That WORKS

The Bottom Feeder

"Every minute a player spends not interacting with your story dilutes the power of the story." - Vogel's Third Law of Video Game Storytelling Suppose you want to write a single-player video game with a good story. Assume you're writing a game to make money. Write fan-fiction about your game? Editing your character's face.

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The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition Crashing [Fixed]

Game Errors

Is The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition crashing on your PC? The award-winning RPG game The Outer Worlds’ new version, the Spacer’s Choice Edition, has many elements to attract gamers. Why does the Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition keeps crashing on my PC? Don’t worry. Get DriverFix 2.

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A deep dive into the beautiful (video) game in A Tale of Two Halves by Bitmap Books

PreMortem.Games

This book has probably taken more like two years due to the sheer scale of the task to write and design it.” Special Touches The production process doesn’t stop at writing and design. Author Richard Moss had long been interested in writing about the subject. “I

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Giving up on MongoDB

Grumpy Gamer

Writing a new blogging platform from the ground up (again) was what I needed. Just write to one. There are web based tools, but none of them (that I found) can display your data in anything that resembles a table to quick scanning and editing. It was time to start over, and by start over, I mean completely start over.

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How to List Your First Game on Board Game Geek

Brand Game Development

As I write this article, I’m going to assume this is your first board game, that neither your team members nor your publishing company are entered into the database, and that you have a Board Game Geek account. Lastly, you go back and edit the yet-to-be approved People and Publishers entries to reference the new Board Game entry.

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Speed running Monkey Island

Grumpy Gamer

It is also possible that I didn’t write it. It’s also worth noting that this is for the original MI2, The special editions and SCUMMVM might have changed how this works. One of the topics was how speed runners dislike random events and the end of Monkey Island 2 has a lot of randomness around when LeChuck appears.

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