Game Design Aspect

APRIL 15, 2022

In this video, game writer Sande Chen lists the top 5 game writing job hunt misconceptions she found during her research on job seekers wanting to break into the video game industry. In 2020 and 2021, I interviewed job seekers who were actively applying to jobs and internships in the video game industry.

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 21, 2021

Last year, I was planning to have another run of Game Writing Primer but the pandemic and subsequent lockdown made that impossible. I checked in with my former students and was delighted to hear of their successes, games , awards, job offers, start-ups, and even a pending wedding between two of them!

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

25 years old, fresh out of script writing studies and feeling detached from society. I felt like an imposter most of the time I was working on the game. The process of writing the 300,000-word script took me 20 months. Jędrzej Napiecek was not in a good place. To be honest, he just felt so… useless.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

One of the most important steps in game development is iterative game design. It’s built on the idea that games aren’t perfect after one round of development. Let’s learn more about iterative game design and what it entails. Let’s learn more about iterative game design and what it entails.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

To celebrate the launch, I’ll be releasing a five-part case study on the development of the game every week for the next five weeks. I didn’t write these articles – Ryan Langewisch did. He is the designer of Tasty Humans. He won Panjam, a 48-hour board game design contest that Pangea ran in 2018.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Sean: Sure!

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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. She explains, “Creativity ended the minute high school began, you had to do things a certain way and the only room for creativity was in writing English essays.”

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 30, 2023

AI affects game design The project’s trajectory shifted with the integration of AI tools. “To produce a point and click game, and to document the creation of a partly AI-generated game.” Next, I start generating assets for the game with AI, like locations, character designs etc.”

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Tiny Hydra

MAY 27, 2021

I have been doing design and development tests for over a decade now (I even did some art tests early in my career) and I have come to the conclusion that most tests are bad. The idea of testing people isn’t bad, in fact, it’s imperative in the games industry.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. About the studio name Grenaa Games: “Grenaa is my family name from my mothers side, so it adds a nice personal touch I think! I do all the coding, game design, day to day production stuff, basically everything else.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The complexity of the process depends on the scale of the project, and for A Tale of Two Halves, which spans decades of football gaming history, the challenge was immense. This book has probably taken more like two years due to the sheer scale of the task to write and design it.”

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After it, you can hope to passively sell your game and reap the rewards in the form of sales. You could also use your success to launch multiple games, building a company in the process. Alternatively, you could dedicate yourself to game design, picking up 5-10% on every game you design for different companies.

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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? Be direct when writing rules. Playtest a Ton.

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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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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Play-testing is the most important part of board game design. It’s how you turn rough, raw ideas into polished, ready-to-play games. Write down everything they say and keep a good attitude even if you disagree. You may also be able to find a game design or play-testing group local to where you live as well.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 8, 2024

His turning point came in 2019 at Comic Con Africa, where he discovered a Game Design degree at Wits University’s stand. “I However, it still took a nudge from a dreadful experience in an Applied Mathematics class to propel him to switch from Computer Science to Game Design. I quickly wrote a story, and she loved it.

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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.

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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 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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Real Programming

JULY 16, 2024

Gamification RP4K places video games at the centre of what we do in a couple of ways. We don’t only teach video games, but we also harness the same dynamics that make video games so engaging and addictive to help kids learn. Video games combine art forms.

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Game Design Aspect

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It was a delight to hear from my former game writing students at PlayCrafting. They attended the one-night Game Writing Portfolio Workout sessions or the multi-week intensive Game Writing Primer course. Mary Georgescu is starting a new job as a game designer at Exploding Kittens.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

The idea of community and consensus is fundamental in the whole story, so we needed this idea to appear in the game design as well.” Creating a narrative-driven multiplayer game that is fun both online and with some friends on the couch posed some real challenges.

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Game Design Aspect

MARCH 21, 2022

The autobiographical essay was the first memoir type of writing that I had ever published and it was later included in Covid-19 memory projects and in ArtsWestchester 's exhibition, " Together apART: Creating During Covid." At the same time, I've been interviewing hiring managers and updating my webinar on game writing portfolios.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2017

I’ve been through it, as have many, many talented game designers, writers, artists, and CEOs. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Making a board game involves hundreds of play tests and a lot of subtle tweaks.

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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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Game Design Aspect

JULY 6, 2021

This year, when I interviewed numerous aspiring game writers and narrative designers, I discovered that many were a bit fuzzy on the actual day-to-day tasks of the job. It was much like when people ask about game design and then find out with surprise that the actual job entails spreadsheets.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 23, 2017

I’m going to talk the importance of timing when you’re developing a board game. They include early game design, game tweaks, artwork, sample production, the game review process, Kickstarter preparation/campaigning/wrap-up, manufacturing, fulfillment, sales, and the marketing. I play-tested some more.

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Game Wisdom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Joy and Pain of Game Mastery Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com As I was writing my shooter book, it meant revisiting some of the better shooters of the past 10 years, and another playthrough of Doom Eternal.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 23, 2020

From it, I went on to write Why the Highways & Byways Kickstarter Campaign Crashed & Burned , which remains one of the most popular posts on this blog, even two years later. I don’t think people write about failure enough. It was a deeply personal project for which I had high hopes. I learned a lot from that experience.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, game designer Sande Chen relates important lessons learned from the design of that game company's games, Journey and Sky. The conversation really tied in with a previous panel topic at CIMFest, Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities. In addition, players cannot disguise themselves.

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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 Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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? If you decide to work on your design doc at the beginning of the project, your future self will probably thank your past self on many occasions. Well, not exactly. .

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Game Design Aspect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I'm thrilled to be shortlisted for one of the 2020 Women in Games Hall of Fame Awards and I am particularly excited that I can spotlight learning games and serious game development within the global game industry. Sande Chen is a writer and game designer with over 15 years of experience in the game industry.

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Real Programming

JANUARY 29, 2024

Likewise, learning how to write code can help kids in several unexpected ways. Coding Helps Kids to Think Like an Engineer Aside from the direct benefits of learning how to write code, many parents want their kids to learn coding online because it helps them think like an engineer. They test their broad-minded hypotheses rigorously.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 8, 2019

Wrong Reason to Make a Board Game #2: You Hate Your Job or Boss. It’s seldom these days that I see a person truly convinced that board game design will make them rich. I didn’t appreciate how hard making a board game was until this blog took off and I started getting calls from entrepreneurs.

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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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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I started the writing with humor. At this point, I’d like to provide a guide on how to perform an autopsy on your board game project. Each autopsy write-up you do will be highly personal and distinctive, but these five steps will give you a rough guideline. Excerpts from War Co. Things I Did Wrong with the Campaign.

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