PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. Combining the world of ice hockey with a roguelite may seem like an odd match, but for game designer Hugo Julien and his fellow co-founders Jean-Nicolas and Mathieu Fortin, it was a natural choice.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 31, 2017

Also, the game doesn’t have a defined win condition yet. Some game designers – and I count myself among them – consider to be win conditions pretty important to games. I’ve pushed a rough version of the game out to Tabletop Simulator for my use only.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities.

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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. If you want to be a game designer, you should keep this in your pocket as a tool to use when the time is right.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

About the budget for the game: “It’s hard to say because me and my partner (Game Designer, Maciej Staczyk) have done a lot of unpaid work. In order to pay off his employees the studio started working as subcontractors on games like simulators. They experienced real tragedies, not me.

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Real Programming

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Game Designer Game design is a math-intensive career. From creating realistic physics simulations to designing engaging game mechanics, math plays a crucial role in crafting immersive experiences. Opportunities in the growing gaming and entertainment industries.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

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. So we thought, where could we combine all these three elements; simulator, horror, and animals? And well, you see the result.”

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This decision gave rise to The Painscreek Killings , a walking simulator detective game with a strong narrative focus. “We We welcomed the different ideas and incorporated them into the full game.” “We were short on talent and experience”, says Tomi. We started with something small – to find out the identity of the killer.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 21, 2024

Even in walking simulators, there's still the active element of moving around the environment and examining each item. The player retains agency in exploration games, even though there aren't too many other overt actions to take. Consider a "walking simulator" like The Talos Principle.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Pre-production lays the foundation for artistic direction, ensuring that all visual elements align with the games mechanics, worldbuilding, and narrative. This stage involves close collaboration between game designers, art directors, and concept artists.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 17, 2023

About the budget for the game: “It’s hard to say because me and my partner (Game Designer, Maciej Stańczyk) have done a lot of unpaid work. In order to pay off his employees the studio started working as subcontractors on games like simulators. They experienced real tragedies, not me.” The Refugees.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

What does this mean for video games? Well, one part of the appeal of games is that they can theoretically simulate the real world and teach us about it, that we can make choices and see those choices be modelled accurately. These games could only simulate a faulty understanding of how baseball works.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Stealth doesn't tend to work super well as a mini-game - there's so much context to stealth and awareness that humans are intimately familiar with it, so most implementations of stealth tend to be very expensive in order to try simulating that kind of behavior.

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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.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game. So this post will focus on my read of the general game design and player experience. Similarly, you can see where the core game design wanted to hit. What if vampires invaded Cape Cod (hmm, ok?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2023

Building and managing It prompted Ağaçdoğrayan to start his own game development studio Gyroscoping Games. Here, a core team of 3 people and quite a few outsourcing partners, work together on Building Hope – Refugee Camp Simulator. It’s a city-builder game that revolves around building and managing a refugee camp.

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Keith Burgun

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, I quickly noticed that this was not your average mobile card game. And almost all of the things that make it “not your average mobile card game” are good old fashioned game design: bold, systemic decisions made surrounding the ruleset. In most CCGs, cards are typically extremely inefficient.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Harvest Island is a single-player farming simulator that allows players to farm, fish and pet all sorts of animals to their heart’s content. Something truly horrifying… Creator Kevin Le, working under the name of Yobob Games , carefully chose to combine a farming simulator with horror elements, after doing market research.

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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.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Of course, the flip side of this is that having your game examined by serial play-testers, game designers, and the occasional publisher makes for a far better test than 10 or 15 with your family, online through Tabletop Simulator, or even at your local game store. I think fostering creativity is that important.

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Raph Koster

JULY 3, 2024

To go beyond that, you have to simulate. But what is really going on is that we are pulling the evolved version of how the simulation worked in UO and SWG into 3d space. Meteors falling from the sky and leaving craters The approach in Stars Reach As the video describes, we are doing a cellular automata approach.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2023

You are correct in that it is possible to transfer that body of knowledge over to the other gaming industry that is casino machines. Beyond that, here are some other roles that game design skills could transfer to. Tabletop, board, or card game design. It's still game design, just not in video games.

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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? Don’t be afraid to learn and change your game design.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

There are a lot of moving parts that go into making board games. Game Design. All games start with ideas. A designer usually starts with the simplest possible prototype – often either pen and paper or on an online testing tool such as Tabletop Simulator. until the game feels great.

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Game Design Aspect

JULY 22, 2020

In this article, game designer Sande Chen discusses the use of virtual reality in creating the theme park Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. Years ago, I was interviewed by Disney Imagineering for an internal documentary on design. I pointed out that level designers of video games are often inspired by amusement parks.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 12, 2017

Want to learn game development? Use BoardGameGeek’s database , blogs such as Stonemaier Games Kickstarter Lessons , Dice Tower videos , design books such as the Kobold Guide to Board Game Design , and even academic research papers (which you can find on Google Scholar ).

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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 Sky, Chen wanted to simulate social consequences.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Sarah: It was summer of 2012 that Will had the idea to make a board game for my birthday, but didn’t know how to go about it. We started designing games together. Early in 2013, our local game store owner mentioned that there were other designers in the area. How do you overcome those? Do you work in a team?

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Cocos

JULY 8, 2024

I made a React TypeScript web game designed for mobile, which includes pages like the main menu, select character, and the core-game page. I also created a core-game project using Cocos Creator 3 and built it as a mobile web app. Are there any better way to integrate the Cocos core-game into my react web app?

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. Research: Research is important to the game design process.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

More Realistic Gaming Online gaming companies stand to benefit significantly from the application of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the areas of simulation performance, graphic quality, and realism. The predictive skills of AI allow game makers to construct very realistic and immersive virtual gaming environments.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments. What does an FX artist do?

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 8, 2018

This article is the tenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Accessibility is a big issue in board gaming. Here’s an online tool you can use to simulate colorblindness.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

If I had to make a few guesses, though, I’d say: Solo and 2-player games are going to be massive. Board games will overall surge in popularity, but not necessarily the ones that would sell out at cons. Virtual cons will fizzle, but Tabletop Simulator and Tabletopia will flourish. The point is: key your eyes open.

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 9, 2022

In fact, there’s one game that comes close to it and it’s rune factory, but that’s a flip of a coin because the main goal of rune factory is to farm and get marry just like the other farming simulator. What I mean by a story driven farming simulator is that you have a centralized plot: beginning, middle, and end.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Uses techniques like key framing, rigging, motion capture, and simulations to show movement. Immersive Worlds – This style provides a more immersive experience, especially in genres that require dynamic environments, such as action games, RPGs, or simulations. The environment is added with depth and volume for realism.

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