Raph Koster

JULY 3, 2024

To go beyond that, you have to simulate. And from the video you might think that only applies to the terrain. 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.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Hi everyone, I’m Soren Johnson, and welcome to You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop Here are the published games that I’ve worked on over my career, some of which I will touch on over the next hour. Certainly, that can be said for video games. I would never have bet on a ultra-detailed dwarf simulator using ASCII art.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Landscape System Tools and the Marketplace Ecosystem The Landscape system in the Unreal engine is a collection of tools used to create any kind of terrain and outdoor environments. Over this, you can start building the rest of the design which includes buildings, neighborhoods, grass, trees, foliage, etc.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) and is likely to either become a player crutch or lead to tedious optimal play (a topic I covered in my game design philosophy article ). Architecture. But we can sorta do something about that if we want to!

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. Such a model could also inform our discussions about game design, suggesting directions for design exploration and expanding our palette of analytical tools and techniques. Modeling depth may help us better understand how to think about these things.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise. You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia. see: "CRT Simulation in Super Win the Game" ).

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