Fighting Game Designer Terrain 
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.
Radiator Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The high visual polish and stellar production values adorn a solid but predictable gameplay loop: you fight through dungeons with random rooms / enemies, collect resources, and bring them back to your hub to build up your village and its inhabitants. The cult of the game industry is most powerful of all.
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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." The trick is making sure the fighting part is engaging.
Designer Notes
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Hi everyone, I’m Soren Johnson, and welcome to You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop Here are the published games that I’ve worked on over my career, some of which I will touch on over the next hour. Or on a game with 1 winner and 99 losers. Or on a turn-based game that plays by itself.
Keith Burgun
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Between that and the fact that I’m a game designer, and one who is also working on my own RPG, I feel like I’m in a pretty good position to give some thoughts on this latest entry in a way that might be helpful to other Final Fantasy fans. That’s it. That’s about it!
Grid Sage Games
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!)
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. This is a pretty good example of the heavy influence interface limitations can have on game design. The biggest change there was simply yet more significant damage buffs. Trap Extractor demo.
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