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. We recently played a bunch of the board game Pax Pamir together, a game neither of us had played before, and you were much better than me.

AI 52

AI Racing Engineering Engine 52

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. So think about games.

Games 85

Games Fantasy Fighting Art 85

Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. What is a game? Board Game Geek – the world’s most beautiful site, in a weird way.

Games 130

Games Game Development Game Developer Media 130

Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

I thought the writing was good (great, for a videogame) but the actual combat I found to be very annoying; real time button mashy combat where the enemies have gigantic health bars resulted in my hand literally aching after beating one boss. The Good The writing starts off incredible. The opening cutscene literally made me cry.

Writing 52

Writing Fantasy Fighting Cutscenes 52

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

In Unity, you write code using the C# language, while in Unreal, you use C++. When working with Unreal, users don’t require deep knowledge of codes or even a basic understanding of how to write them. Games can be developed through the tools in the integrated visual scripter called Blueprint.

Engineering 52

Engineering Engine Game Engine Games 52

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.

Racing 40

Racing Mechanics Games Development 40

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. Many other games took a page out of the Royal Match Live Ops playbook and began implementing their versions of in-game events to offer more content to their players.

Tile 52

Tile Co-op Puzzle Feature 52