PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

“We are building a historically accurate survival strategy game” Gorilla Softworks co-founder Deniz Şakar explains how the team has tried to accurately portray the challenges early humans faced while they looked for ways to survive and thrive. “We

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Designer Notes

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

They discuss what shampoo sales have to do with Old Man Murray, why he tests his games in a foreign language, and why game design is easier for co-op games. Games discussed: Pong , Tecmo Bowl , Civilization series, Archon , M.U.L.E. This episode was recorded August 17, 2021.

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Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Alternatively, you can start with an idea for how you want the game to feel and then slowly experiment and tweak things until the gameplay organically arises out of your experiments. Many board game designers have different techniques, but they all tend to fall into one of these two broad categories.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Today people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds play and enjoy video games, while their preferences and consumption habits may vary. Demographic information also influences game design decisions. If the audience is older adults, the game may incorporate more strategic elements and a user-friendly interface.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Game Design and Development Process Let’s quickly walk through what it takes to develop a game from scratch. Each game project has 3 distinct stages- pre-production, production, and post-production. Research: Research is important to the game design process. The following steps are involved: 1.

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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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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What’s really noticeable in the Merge Mansion’s stride is the investment into the narrative in both game design and the creatives. The Idle Games have seen renewed growth with IP-driven games like The Office and RuPaul Drag Race, which are both keeping up their revenues despite the decline in downloads.

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OPM Jobs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe When it comes to competitive games to play with your partner, Mario Kart is hard to beat. The races are entertaining, the action is fast, and the bananas never get old. Escape Academy’s puzzles, like real-life escape rooms, are much more enjoyable to solve with someone else there to help.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

This panel discusses how designers and storytellers can build in empathic elements that can be found and engaged with even when the larger narrative gets delivered out of order. Meet the panelists: Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the game industry.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 5, 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 Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Sande Chen Profiled as one of the Game Industry's Top 100 Most Influential Women and a 2020 Women in Games Global Hall of Fame winner, Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. You can find her on Twitter at @Ing3nu or on her blog at www.ungerink.com.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 19, 2024

It feels kind of like a videogame, again partially due to the theme but also the way that “teching up” and characters’ “ultimates” work, as well as the fighting-game style asymmetric characters. Spellstorm is not a “race”, Spellstorm is a dance. You lean fire, I lean water. So you lean Earth.

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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." When I start putting some game in the game.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

You may also come across a game via a sponsored/influenced post on X or Discord. Tap the button and you’re off to the races! Experience with idle games — making a repetitive action seem fun and not taxing — is key. In one tap, you can join a dedicated Telegram channel… a bot will ask you to begin playing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 25, 2019

Read how SuperScale increased the monetisation of Hill Climb Racing 2 by 50%. The core of our business model is understanding what is going on in the game and then turning this data into an actionable plan to prioritise actions and optimise our partner’s game business. SuperScale lives and breaths data.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 8, 2024

This model emphasizes the role of soft launches: launch when KPIs suggest the game is compelling rather than editorial opinion, whether from marketing, platform, or game design leaders. In a game built on streaks, the inability to at least test the match-3 playbook (Lava Quest, Episode Race. etc) is puzzling.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. Today, I’ll go into some more specific implementation principles that designers can use while crafting their choices in order to get the player thinking.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Anything with “evil race has come to the land” Demons, orcs, whatever, is all bad, because these are all stand in for “people” There is a way you can do it where it comes off as more of a “force of nature”, almost like a huge storm or something, which is an improvement. Let’s get into the list.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, I don’t want to leave things too abstract - game design is about taking an idea and translating it into real game rules and mechanics. Today, I’ll go into some more specific implementation principles that designers can use while crafting their choices in order to get the player thinking.

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Game Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

Jordan Weisman: Sure, Our goal with Adventure Forge is to empower people to make games that tell the stories they’ve always wanted to tell. Jordan Weisman: We think games are made by humans and for humans. We’re not racing towards AIs telling stories. GameDaily: Can you explain Adventure Forge in your own words?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Leszek will demo the development of a 2D game with audience interaction. Several options will be available based on attendees' interests: platformer shooter, space shooter with enemy AI, drift racing game, and pong with a twist - destructive environment. In her free time, she enjoys developing games about Antarctica with Godot.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

Race and Class. I started thinking about how we had just recently done the race/class update, where all cards now had a race (a card that used to be just "Cleric" would now be "Human Cleric") and all sentient races now had a class (instead of just "Elf" it would be "Elf Warrior"). Suddenly everything was so much easier.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 29, 2024

Many game designers will instantly say: "How can we show the player the same thing? Yes, in an ideal world of paid games, this could be true: a unique gaming experience is played only once. Reusing content The next thing on our list is reusing and looping content. They're not going to play it again.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This style can be a nice option for adventure, mystery, and puzzle games. Fantasy realism is used for games full of movement, action, and drive. Games developed with the fantasy realism art style often involve aliens, races, and creatures that aren’t “real” yet are depicted realistically within the game world.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, a game about 19th Century Europe in which those nations did not race for colonies, even if to the detriment of literally everyone in the world, would clearly put players in an ahistorical mindset. We game designers have no idea what we are doing. You know how we all feel like we are impostors?

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

There are ways to mitigate this issue, but this is a Cursed Game Design problem as defined by Alex Jaffe in his fantastic 2019 GDC talk, which I recommend everyone should take the time to watch.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

You can date in this game, but only women, because Adachi is a man. He can save the world or he can just spend all his time doing kart racing. Adachi can be a Chef, or a Host, or a Fortuneteller. But one thing he can’t do, is be gay. That would be bad.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. PUBG Mobile was developed by Tencent’s Light Speed studio while Timi, who allegedly also was in a race to develop PUBG Mobile, ended up making Call of Duty.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 13, 2021

Written by Michail Katkoff , games executive and founder of Deconstructor of Fun, and Niek Tuerlings , Senior Game Designer and author of popular game development blog Ludocious.com. Special thanks for the Hybridcasual design insights to Abhimanyu Kumar , founder of Naavik consulting.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

In this article, you can take a quick look at some of the highly-rated and compelling games created with Unity. Kerbal Space Program This is a popular simulation game developed by Squad and released in 2015. The game puts players in charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It launched to little fanfare in Korea but it became the de facto FPS standard in China thanks to a massive focus on continuous releases of new (and often left-field) modes (ranging from bike racing to ‘soccer with knives’) and extravagant, overpowered, expensive weapons and outfits catering to local taste.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two graphs below show that competition for supremacy of Mid-Core in the Western audience is a tight race between Supercell and FunPlus. But before we break down the market, the main players and give out our predictions, I’d like to present the two graphs that led to the title of the post.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Let’s start from the ground up and talk about all the super simple basic elements that need to be understood to make great games. Remember that no marathoner ever finished a race before sweating and huffing through their first belabored mile many months – or years – prior. What is a game? You get the idea.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, Spyke Games didn't need to invent an entirely new concept, but they managed to incorporate obstacles that were well-suited to the Tile Match game design. In fact, they are one of the key elements determining the difficulty of any given level. Of course, it is not as easy as just slapping some obstacles to the levels.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

(Of course, many games are actually on a continuum between these two extremes – most free-for-all Eurogames severely limit how players can impact each other so that diplomacy is of little use. Pax Pamir is perhaps that alternate version of Race – Pamir is not a bad engine-building game, it’s a good some-other-sort-of game.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

Perfect board game pacing is one of the most underrated aspects of board game design. Somewhere between overwhelm and ennui, there lies a middle ground where a game is perfectly paced. A great board game feels challenging and interesting throughout. The Race to the Finish.

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Designer Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

As a game designer, I am well aware that water finds a crack ; the Republican party is taking a rational approach to how our system works. Consider that over the last 36 years, Republican presidential candidates have only ONCE won the popular vote, and that was DURING A WAR.

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