Keith Burgun

APRIL 14, 2024

I had a playtest with a friend of mine one day, and he noted that we have a lot of resources and they are all kind of “similar” We had gold, mana, health, storm shards, and blast tokens, and they all kind of felt the same in how they moved throughout the game. +1 Anyway, onto the breakthrough. Huge upset!

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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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Fantasy Fighting Balance Concepts 52

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. During Pandante development, I posted dozens of versions of the game board, cards, rules, etc. Patrons helped playtest and also just point out errors or give suggestions how to improve things. Instead.it's fun.

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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.

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. Paint a picture of the final game. Many questions will be answered as we try to design the complete experience. How many levels?

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece. The rapid feedback and iteration cycles enabled by this level of playtesting mean that the game is currently in fantastic shape.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

So I reimagined them yet again, taking into account their unique targeting mechanics and what that means when fighting other bots. As is the changes are too new and we’ll have to see what real playtesting turns up. This is a pretty good example of the heavy influence interface limitations can have on game design.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In playtesting so far this (among other benefits we’ll get to later) is already clearly tempting players who would otherwise always prefer regular branches over infiltrating a Garrison. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy. Failing that (gets blasted in a fight?

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