Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game?

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left. By looking at the show from a game design standpoint, I think we see how a lot of it has to end up. Game of Throne is, on a casual viewing, a very complicated show.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By the way, artists sometimes offer interesting and unusual solutions by mixing low poly with other styles to create amazing in-game experiences. This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. Fantasy Realism. Fantasy realism is used for games full of movement, action, and drive.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

As I’ve gone through the Final Fantasy series recently , it’s notable that the games used to have secrets, and now, they pretty much don’t anymore. Somewhere in the late 90s, and certainly by the mid 2000s, it was decided that secrets are bad and games shouldn’t have them.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And Many More… There are so many more seemingly profitable hits — Rocky Rabbit (a PvP battle sim), Fanton Fantasy Football (a soccer/football idle sim), Farm Frens (an idle farming game), MemeFi Club with its clans and raids, the 18+ “dating” and clicker game Pocket Waifu , not to mention thousands of others slowly rising through the charts.

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Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

Codex, Flowchart, and now.the Fantasy Strike fighting game (yes, really!). At the $10 subscription level, patrons get my "Raw Game Design" podcast where I discuss actual design problems in the middle of solving for my games, as well as some sneak peeks at art. But there is surprisingly much to the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Many game designers will instantly say: "How can we show the player the same thing? Yes, in an ideal world of paid games, this could be true: a unique gaming experience is played only once. So we decided to loop the puzzles at the same time as adding new ones. They're not going to play it again.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2023, the game I'm most proud of in my long and distinguished career as a game designer will be twenty years old. Why is this game so beloved? Before I talk about the ghosts, I need to start with where this game began. But I was wrong - we had one more game together.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

To a diehard sports fan or competitive gamer, winning the fantasy sports league provides emotional value on top of the financial value of any prize money. A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. Written by Eric Guan.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. Our games are highly interactive novels with settings, characters, and stories that get people to actually give us real money. I'm not a great fantasy writer. So how do we succeed? The answer is: Writing. Now let's be clear.

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Writing Games AAA Indy 59

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Despite being a casual game, Cookie Run: Kingdom published a 200-page art collection with detailed backstories, characters, and designs, showing the developer’s ambition of building its own universe. As a mobile game, how did Cookie Run: Kingdom accomplish this through its gameplay mechanics?

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This, in fact, was what my signature design style was. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling. So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do. So is FFXIV.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

This analysis will give you a full overview of the Strategy games genre, which is the second-largest genre in the Western markets after puzzle. This makes the genre second largest on mobile in (outside key Asian markets) after Puzzle games. Strategy games also represent nearly a half of all Mid-Core revenues.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Kevin J Bray (Game Engineer) , another professional with years of entrepreneurship experience (CEO at now defunct Byte Canvas; Executive Director at Tonk Tonk Games), who previously was a developer and lead engineer at League of Legends (about the same time as Maya).

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

He has now added a fantasy version of the tournament where viewers can bid on different leaders before the games begin and then track their success, as one might do in “real” fantasy sports. I’m curious about all-human, no-AI Civ.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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