PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Like most times in horror stories, it starts out as a normal night. Simulator, horror and animals Zoo animals transforming into mutated monsters is cool and all, but framing this idea into appealing gameplay required thorough analysis of the niche the studio wants to serve. A very scifi horror style.” Of course, in a zoo.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“ I’ve been working on a game for close to 3 years at this point and the whole idea of IHAS has transpired through these years of development. At first, I was planning to make a walking simulator-horror game. A year later, I started to add puzzles and worked out a story and a few key philosophical concepts for the game.”

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 29, 2022

So what does this have to do with game design? As a game designer, you’ve got to convey a constant flow of game information to the player, and you want to avoid overwhelming them with it. It’s a powerful effect, because every channel available to you is reinforcing the horror of the scene being depicted.

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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, “In civil engineering, I learned about architecture and how to design buildings. This knowledge helps me create architectural designs in games.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 29, 2024

More and more South-Korean indie game developers take aim at the PC and console market. Like Seoul-based Funnylocks with their recently released horror action shooter Unstoppable. Set in a New York office building in the 1990’s, the game plays out as a action-filled mini series, including cutscenes that unravel the plot. “To

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Football Game Development Moss conducted over a dozen in-depth interviews with football game designers for the book. His research revealed just how difficult it is to create a great football game. A Tale of Two Halves: The History of Football Video Games is coming soon.

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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. Horror in the darkness by Karmic Shift Studios. Simulacra by Kaigan Games.

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iHobo

MARCH 29, 2023

A huge range of brilliant puzzle game designs in the 90s and 2000s delivered thrill-seeking play that was fundamentally not about winning. These games were so perfect at pushing player's high speed buttons, that EA bought Criterion and gave them the Need for Speed franchise to develop. Next week: Horror

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventeenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Artists are some of the most important people you will work with when you’re creating a game.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2023, the game I'm most proud of in my long and distinguished career as a game designer will be twenty years old. Why is this game so beloved? Before I talk about the ghosts, I need to start with where this game began. But I was wrong - we had one more game together. There are three new haunters here.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In a past era of game design, we complained when combat games had obligatory stealth sections -- now we have story games with obligatory combat sections. Before you begin the zombie-filled Palace quest, the game UI helpfully advises, "if you're not a fan of action or horror gameplay, feel free to decline this quest."

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It’s a sci-fi survival horror story heavily inspired by the Alien franchise. The Board Game Geek page does a great job of explaining why Nemesis is so interesting… Nemesis is a semi-cooperative game where you and your crew-mates must survive on a ship infested with hostile organisms. Nemesis ( $119.99 on Amazon ).

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iHobo

JULY 31, 2023

The twelve parts are as follows: The Ten Player Motives Victory Problem-solving Acquisition Luck Thrill-seeking Horror Social Curiosity Narrative Agency Aesthetic Thanks for everyone who supported this serial - and if you enjoyed it, please leave a comment!

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Tom Francis

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I can’t speak to how important this is, but the fix is the absolute nadir of fussy, awkward, unsatisfying game design: if and only if a pawn just moved 2 spaces on its last turn, and an enemy pawn (and only a pawn! Ooh, tough game design problem! Who can say who should win that game? That’s not great.

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Rampant Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It was at once extremely satisfying to play exactly what I had once hoped for, and yet a glaringly obvious example of how VR is a revolutionary entertainment platform that demands a new approach to game design. It is still in early access, but I believe the entire game is fully playable in VR now.

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Yobob Games

JANUARY 6, 2023

Game Development Journey of Marketing. 3 years is a long time to make a game. I just knew I needed my next game to be bigger than my previous if I wanted to be a game designer full time. I say this because I worked on other games before Harvest Island. But that didn’t work out for me.

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iHobo

MAY 23, 2023

Of all my hundreds of game projects, this is still the title where I am most proud of the game design, the project where I beam with pride when I think of the incredible team and the contributions everyone made to make such a memorable and unique experience. Today is the twentieth anniversary of the release of Ghost Master.

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Game Design Advice

JANUARY 29, 2021

I suggested that game designers were, in a sense, organized spoilsports that looked at the magic circles available to them and refused to find a permanent home in any of them. If spoilsports sometimes appear in society as a Guy Fawkes they are also sometimes a Copernicus.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 5, 2011

sacrifice an Elf: Put a 1/1 black Elf Horror token into play. Creature – Elf Scout. , : Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Play this ability only during your upkeep. Dark Priest. Creature – Elf Shaman. Mana from Heaven. Sorcery – Elf. Creatures you control gain " : Add to your mana pool" until end of turn.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

Video games have similar terms: "RPG." There's no swab test to tell if a game is "Survival Horror" or not. It really makes sense that game designers like rules. And it makes sense that we like firm categories, as many of us were drawn in by games that relied on the comfort of firm categories. Metroidvania."

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack.

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