Game Design Aspect

JULY 10, 2020

In this article, game designer Sande Chen discusses the practice of generating game ideas on a daily or weekly basis. In writing classes, students sometimes are asked to journal or write daily. Similarly, game design students may be asked to generate lists of game ideas or mechanics.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

If the audience shows passion and interest, continue to game design. Game Design: The process of taking a game’s specifications and turning them into a functional game with mechanics, rules, and components. Play-Testing: Playing the game and refining it until it’s fun.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What started as a simple concept quickly turned into a game that challenges players with a mix of strategic depth and risk-reward mechanics. I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge.” ” “I met with Richard Boese r again a few weeks back. (

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Play-test with game designers. Let’s say you’ve made light games.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 24, 2017

In this guide, I’ll be showing game developers how to get board games listed on Board Game Geek. As I write this article, I’m going to assume this is your first board game, that neither your team members nor your publishing company are entered into the database, and that you have a Board Game Geek account.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 14, 2017

Just like in a game of darts, if you don’t have a clear target, you won’t win. Write them down. Here’s the goals I’ve set for my company, Pangea Games. If you struggle with time management in your game development projects, here’s what I suggest: Get a Google Calendar. Speak about them often.

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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? Rules provide directions on how to execute activities within a game.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 7, 2017

Themes create this story that make it easier for players to understand and interact with dry mechanics. A lot of times, board game designers and publishers will create abstract games and add themes later. Re-theming is totally fine by me. I’ve paid attention to which maps make sense to me and which ones don’t.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 14, 2017

I talk a lot about the business side of board game creation. When I talk about game design itself, I often talk about the relentless play-testing , balancing , and different levels of communication that you must master so that your game is understood and enjoyed. That is where the theme came from. It paid off.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I’ll also be writing responses for Will. Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Compare two games Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring. Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. The game features edgier imagery, corrupted natural environments, hostile characters, and realistic sound effects. A great example of this is the game Death Stranding.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Six months into development, Coma accepted a job at Appeal Studios as a game designer, eventually becoming a game director. During his time there, he reconnected with a colleague from a previous game jam, Baptiste Remy, who shared an interest in making smaller indie games outside of work hours. .

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Game Designer Johannes Knop explains the success of the game by tapping in on the innate fascination of people for destruction. “ We introduce new parts and mechanics in every new world, so you constantly have new experiences”, says Knop. “By Most important part is that we have a lot of people that make games around us.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 22, 2024

When we founded Clapperheads, we were certain that we wanted to specialize in horror games”, explains CPO & Lead Game Designer Valentin Shchekin (Serbia). With our first game Sparky Marky, we needed to quickly make a game to make a name for ourselves, especially during such a challenging time for the industry. “It

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

Here are a few examples: How to Pitch Your Board Game to a Publisher How to Pitch (and Not Pitch) Your Game to Stonemaier Games Board game designers are bad at pitching games to publishers. In this article, I’m not going to write about how to specifically word a pitch. I can help.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Compelling puzzles And so the team built the game around the story. The gameplay mechanics and puzzles all came from the question ‘what fun things could we mess with inside a phone’. The creative process of the writing and narrative design was mainly back and forths between Lucie Robert (Lead Design) and myself.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

With a knack for puzzles, arcades, and simulation games. When Ahmetcan isn’t busy crafting and designing killer features, you’ll find him exploring Berlin's vibrant tech scene or writing for Deconstructor of Fun in one of the hipster cafes of the city.

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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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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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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 11, 2018

Worst: I wish we would have had custom responses for every verb and object in the first few rooms of the game. Players were just getting used to the interface and mechanic and default responses threw people off sometimes. There used to be posts here - “excerpts” from a novel you have not been writing. I loved those!

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The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In the first one, we will list the most important reasons why you should create at least an outline of the fundamental features and mechanics you want to have your game. After all, in a couple of hours that you would spend on writing all the ideas down, you might be coding and make these ideas come to live instead, right?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 15, 2018

This article is the eleventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming. A lot of this is just good game design.).

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Roundtable: Creating Non-Toxic Gamer Communities (1 PM Eastern) What game design principles can be used to promote friendlier and harassment-free communities? Join us for a discussion on what strategies game designers can use to create safe virtual spaces that are enjoyable for all players.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. This recap post / viewing guide covers only the first half of the series (episodes 01-17) and I'll try to write-up the second half later.

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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. It’s practically game mechanics in action.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When we founded Clapperheads, we were certain that we wanted to specialize in horror games”, explains CPO & Lead Game Designer Valentin Shchekin (Serbia). With our first game Sparky Marky, we needed to quickly make a game to make a name for ourselves, especially during such a challenging time for the industry. “It

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 19, 2024

And so, we quickly realised the potential to form a bit of a ‘Super Group’ by bringing Game Design and AI Tech together. Press B to express Doubt’, for example, is a classic case of mismatch between gameplay scenario and mechanical input. Using natural language and free-text input would clearly be a significant improvement.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

Driven by his desire to immerse himself in game design, Kimani rejoined Wits University. Cukia Kimani & Ben Myres He explains, “The reason for me to go back to Wits and do a post-grad in Game Design, to be honest, was the community. I was not just like, ‘hey guys, I made a video game.’

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 12, 2018

Worst: I wish we would have had custom responses for every verb and object in the first few rooms of the game. Players were just getting used to the interface and mechanic and default responses threw people off sometimes. There used to be posts here - "excerpts" from a novel you have not been writing. I loved those!

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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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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's 's very own Instructor extraordinaire).

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One of the reasons why hyper-casual games are so popular is due to how quick and easy they are to make. Simple controls, artwork, and game design make it easy for any developer to pick up. There are other ways to build a game on a budget. Because choice is how you can differentiate a book from a game. Change: 6/10.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 29, 2019

Games like Chess , Go , Connect Four , and Chutes and Ladders are playgrounds for mathematicians. As they learn more, we as game designers absorb little bits and pieces of their wisdom and subconsciously incorporate them into our designs. Photo by janus on Board Game Geek under CC-BY 3.0 Worth remembering!

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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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The Knights of Unity

MAY 6, 2020

This Free2Play model generates more than 50% of the global gaming market revenue. What are Hyper-Casual Games? As the name suggests, hyper-casual games are derived from casual games, but they have simpler mechanics and instant gameplay. They include short rounds and maximally simplified mechanics.

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