The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 12, 2024

It was a bold choice to ship this game with only one romance option. I wanted to write a third and final article about Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3 for short), a really great game that most people have moved on from, but I want to talk about the most important part of any RPG: LOOT. In the tabletop game, wands recharge every day.

Fighting 89

Fighting Puzzle Writing Terrain 89

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. The deformable terrain was a bug. Being around those people was great.

Games 104

Games Bug Terrain Game Design 104

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Most people don't actually care about deep dives into game design. But I DO Write Games For a Living I try out lots and lots of video games. For example, you can make the same goblin (well, moblin) fort play entirely differently by placing it in ways that interact with the terrain around it. Wise choice.

Cutscenes 82

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 82

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. Restrictive terrain.

Games 75

Games Fantasy Fighting Art 75

Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

But before I explain the narration, I want to jump back in time when I started building the endless terrain generator. But on the other hand, this fact made me aware of my competence as a game designer.  Where do I begin here… Let me go back to the point I quit writing about in the blog. The creature designs.

Prototyping 52

Prototyping Terrain Open World Rigging 52

Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures. As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. He writes about how players must be able to determine if a creature is a friend or enemy just by its shape and from long distance.

Terrain 52

Terrain Concepts Art Mesh 52

Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Despite its relatively small item pool and low emphasis on random variants, Brogue has an even greater emphasis on terrain factors that really help support the dynamic gameplay in a way that keeps repeated runs interesting. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

Data 52

Data Terrain Balance Mechanics 52