PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. Once I decided that this was the general idea for the game I tried to come up with what it might actually look and feel like.” One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 9, 2024

Then I can sell my games to them eventually, much as a catfish eats the scum at the bottom of a lake. It's also a great opportunity to pick apart a good game's design. If a game sells well, that means every choice it made was correct, and you should pick over the carcass for ideas to steal with all speed.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. Once I decided that this was the general idea for the game I tried to come up with what it might actually look and feel like.” One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. Once I decided that this was the general idea for the game I tried to come up with what it might actually look and feel like.” One day, Dave Kosak, a guy that helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) The Geneforge Saga is a fantasy-science fiction hybrid with a wildly open-ended world, story, and game system.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

After a year of documenting the Highways & Byways development process through the Dev Diary, this is not the post I wanted to write. I would have much preferred to write a post about how Highways & Byways funded on day 1. Need help on your board game? Writing this post was like performing an exorcism.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Here are the basic steps in creating a video game analysis: Determine Your Objective Why are you writing a video game critical analysis? It’s a question that only you can answer, and it will impact how you write the critique. It will make it easier for you to find the right voice when writing your analysis.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Sadly, also a way overly complicated combat system and overall it has “modern videogame over-smoothed-ness” IN STARS AND TIME – Very cool game that I recommend you go check out. Great art, great music, good writing. I was going to write “too long”, but there is no correct length for an RPG.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. The answer is: Writing. 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.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists. It involves a mix of searching, managing, and writing good requirements.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 23, 2023

Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com My current project is finishing up the writing of my next book on RPG design. One thing I didn’t think about when I first started writing was just how much the genre’s cues and qualifiers have proliferated out to everything … The post Why Did Everything Become an RPG?

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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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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Bring your computer and work on fixing engine issues or writing documentation under the guidance of core Godot devs. Ilaria Cislaghi is a game designer working for simedis AG , a company specialised in virtual reality medical simulation. In her free time, she enjoys developing games about Antarctica with Godot.

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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. If we don’t prompt them to write our term papers for us, they don’t do anything on their own.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Only MMO like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 are still generally recognized by western gamers. Weapon and armor design in Lost Ark is often extremely exaggerated and luxurious. It can be seen from the hodge-podge of scene design.

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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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The Bottom Feeder

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When I'm between writing games, I spend a lot of time playing them. Part of the reason I play the hot new games is, of course, to find ideas to steal. Each game can be won, usually in a few hours, making the cartridge in the collection turn gold. As of this writing, I've tried all the games, with 8 wins and 2 cherries.)

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Paths: World of Adia , a fantasy themed tabletop RPG.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. Turns out, if your game design is a little lacking, all you need to do is spackle on a bit of "Make bars fill up to make numbers get bigger to make bars fill up." Nobody could write Asteroids now. Buff the weak ones!

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The Bottom Feeder

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Since I write a bit about the Wicked movie I’m putting this image at the top to make the thumbnails for this article more appealing. Stirring Up Mess On Twitter Vogel's 1st Law of Video Game Visibility: "No matter how passionate an online 'controversy' about a game is, 99% of its players will never even know about it."

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. All of this creates a more lighthearted fantasy world. We feel the desire to protect this beautiful world and the characters we meet, playing nicely with the game’s story.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. Weird Giraffe Games (@WeirdGiraffes) May 30, 2017. Mine are to connect and strengthen the bond of family.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Jamey Stegmaier made a civilization game.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The only thing you can learn from this is: If you write a hugely popular and addictive viral indie megahit, you can get away with whatever you want. 25 if your game is extra-fancy. Twin-Stick Shooters Show the Perils of Game Design This has been my favorite genre since the first of its kind, Robotron: 2084 , came out in 1982.

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Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

My predictions below relied on the premise that good writing would basically force some events to happen, and I was thrown by a loop by the, well, not good writing. I leave this prediction post up for reference anyway —- I’m going to give my predictions for how Game of Thrones ends up. You can throw all that out. Bran’s power.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They also show – in their different ways – that there are many ways to create excitement and energy in the market, through bold game design, smart marketing, and intelligent planning, not to mention confident investment. Mountains move Such games move mountains.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I thought the writing was good (great, for a videogame) but the actual combat I found to be very annoying; real time button mashy combat where the enemies have gigantic health bars resulted in my hand literally aching after beating one boss. The Good The writing starts off incredible. The opening cutscene literally made me cry.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. Thanks to groundbreaking technology advancements, developers can now take advantage of cutting-edge software and game engines which enable them to create fantasy worlds in video games.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack.

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