Brand Game Development

JANUARY 13, 2020

You and all the other players in the game play as Spirits who fight off the Invaders – basically, people who want to colonize your island. However, the only real offense Bringer has is the Dahan fighting back. Lastly, the variable player powers are balanced in such a way that the game stays fresh for a long time!

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Tasty Humans is about monsters fighting humans instead of the other way around, which gets a sick laugh out of everybody who sees the game. If you want your game to be great, it can’t simply be a technical masterpiece. The post 10 Elements of Good Game Design appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Sirlin

JANUARY 10, 2016

There's a new episode of my Raw Game Design podcast up for my ($10+) patrons, here. That same podcast link also has links to all the other episodes of Raw Game Design too, btw. This is "raw game design" in the truest sense in that we are lost in the forest here. Which modes even exist? How are they arranged?

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 28, 2019

They fight for your attention so that enough people stick around to see the real artistry. Everdell is an excellent example of a well-made game perfectly tailored for its audience. The post 4 Lessons from Everdell for Aspiring Board Game Designers appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. Final Thoughts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox BAFTA has unveiled the 2023 winners of its Young Game Designers (YGD) awards. In the ten to 14-year-old category, Max Whistlecraft won the Game Concept award with Polarity, a science-themed title; users can switch the polarities like a magnet to fight bosses.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

. “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.” Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. So this post will focus on my read of the general game design and player experience. You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! But not really.

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 28, 2024

The "evil" races are a manifestation of the occasional need to fight for our survival, on an individual or national level. But there is something about giving a lesson in a surreal way that slams a message into our brains more effectively than a thousand dry, didactic speeches ever will.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I tried to make players wonder about life and its meaning – kind of like the Deus Ex games. It’s used to both fight enemies and solve puzzles. It definitely affected the vibe of the game, making it darker and more depressing, but still having hope for the future.” Another unique point is the weapon. Playtest early.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

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! These articles will provide you with tremendous insight into what it’s like to make board games from the designer’s perspective. This guy is a freaking legend.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

About the budget for the game: “It’s hard to say because me and my partner (Game Designer, Maciej Staczyk) have done a lot of unpaid work. This is my first game – and my debut as a Game Writer – and I have no idea what the player feedback will be. They experienced real tragedies, not me.

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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. Limited regen (e.g.

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Keith Burgun

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The two songs in this episode: the opening one is from FF13-2, written by Naoshi Mizuta, the game’s fight song, and the closing one is from FF11, Memoro de la Stono, which I believe is one of the few songs on the incredible 11 OST written by Nobuo Uematsu. As always, you can support the show at www.patreon.com/keithburgun.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Invincible attacks are a form of counter play - opponents must keep aware when pressing the offense because the defender can use an invincible attack like an Uno Reverse card to stop the offense in its tracks. but only if that invincible attack hits.

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the previous part of the post, we’ve introduced you to the most important reasons to create a game design document in your project, using three examples: personal project, internal project, and commission work. Core game loop is a base of your game’s mechanics, that will be repeated by the player.

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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. You get money to buy randomly selected upgrades.

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Sirlin

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I have a free podcast series on game design, here. In this latest Raw Game Design episode, I discuss how we might use advanced AIs in the Fantasy Strike fighting game, if we had access to some pretty great AI tech. I also have a second podcast that's just for my Patreon supporters.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 1, 2023

What you're describing is the dissonance between having a normal human (with all of the common context that carries with it, like "people often die when they are shot at all") as the final boss and the expectation of a final boss fight being a prolonged, memorable, and epic battle that tests the things you've learned so far.

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

About the budget for the game: “It’s hard to say because me and my partner (Game Designer, Maciej Stańczyk) have done a lot of unpaid work. This is my first game – and my debut as a Game Writer – and I have no idea what the player feedback will be. They experienced real tragedies, not me.”

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Sirlin

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game. We cover the high concept about making a fighting game more accessible from top to bottom than anything else we've seen, the specific game mechanics we chose to accomplish that, and the resulting dynamics of how it plays. Fantasy Strike is our new fighting game.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This week while working on my current board game design, a lot of things have come into focus. Now it’s time to start tweaking board game rules. This is where board game design often becomes very tricky. Need help on your board game? Consider How Much Challenge You Want Your Game to Have.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2024

It was famously designed by Gygax to mess with the players in his own campaign and provide meat for players who came to him and said they could beat anything he threw at him. The main problem, alas, is that, while it IS a fascinating landmark for game design, it is not a good adventure. The older one is my copy.) Pwned, n00b.

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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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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Dreaming big is a powerful ability that comes naturally to the ignorant and which the knowing can and must fight to maintain. Just as it’s easier to refuse your first cigarette than to stop smoking, it’s easier to read about game design than to admit that you did it wrong and then start reading.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

. “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.” Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics.

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We discuss "easy special moves" in fighting games. What is a game with "easy special moves" actually trying to do? Moves being easy—in and of itself—tells you nothing about whether the techniques and combos in a game are easy to do or not.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I was working at a tech incubator in Zambia, surrounded by programmers, and it never crossed my mind that we could make our own games. Then someone told me about a game developer in our community who had developed a fighting game based on their comic. They created videos, and I could see them playing the game.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Within broader game design culture, the theme also invokes an awkward aspect of cultural appropriation and reduction. Any layout device that can break line of sight to stagger waves / structure a fight can function effectively as a closet. The textures are fine!

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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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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 5, 2024

When players start a fight with Corp enemies, they should have a good idea about what they should expect from Corp enemies. A lot of work needs to go into differentiating the members of each faction - what is common to those enemies and how fighting them feels different from fighting enemies from other factions.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2009

While Insult Sword Fighting is one of the first things people think of when they hear Monkey Island, I thought it seemed little tedious (but fun) as I played though it again. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I'd make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

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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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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In a past era of game design, we complained when combat games had obligatory stealth sections -- now we have story games with obligatory combat sections. Before you begin the zombie-filled Palace quest, the game UI helpfully advises, "if you're not a fan of action or horror gameplay, feel free to decline this quest."

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Keith Burgun

DECEMBER 30, 2023

One of the principles that has been important to me over the years, which I have talked about a lot, is the idea that strategy games should always be moving toward their conclusion. In a way, this extends from the basic Clockwork Game Design model. As an example, let’s think quickly about fighting games.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 30, 2009

While Insult Sword Fighting is one of the first things people think of when they hear Monkey Island, I thought it seemed little tedious (but fun) as I played though it again. If I was going to do Insult Sword Fighting in a future game, I’d make it more free form allowing the player to be clever and construct their own sentences.

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