Game Developer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

"The player is an agent of chaos. Lock them up."

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Mechanics Agent Games 231

Game Developer

AUGUST 29, 2024

The studio is making its Early Access game into a premium title when it hits 1.0 due to a lack of time and effort to dedicate into monetization.

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Mechanics Studios Games 266

Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2023

Obsidian senior area designer Evan Hill took to the stage at GDC 2023 to plot a heist.

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Mechanics Games 246

Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2023

For anyone with an interest in game design, Polaris' developer summit has different articles covering various aspects of design development.

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Mechanics Dev Game Designer Game Design 246

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Silverstring Media wants to reclaim the "idle game" genre to reward truly idle gameplay.

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Mechanics Media Games 241

Game Developer

JULY 9, 2024

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts.'

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Mechanics Technology Games 330

Game Developer

APRIL 7, 2023

Environmental strategy game Terra Nil needed to do what no other citybuilding game had done before to cross the finish line.

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Mechanics Games 234

Indie DB

MARCH 8, 2024

Build your team of mechanics and work together to repair and deliver as many cars as possible before the time runs out! Playable with up to 4 players, locally or online, Mechanic Heroes will make you love mechanics or simply hate your friends.

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Mechanics Localization Build 105

Game Developer

AUGUST 22, 2023

Mimimi Games needed a touch of magic to make save scumming feel like a natural part of gameplay.

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Mechanics Games 246

Game Developer

MARCH 12, 2024

The directors of RAM: Random Access Mayhem talk about how difficulties doing well while playing challenging roguelike games would spark a compelling idea for a roguelike of their own.

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Mechanics Games 230

Game Developer

JUNE 12, 2023

Mortal Kombat series co-creator Ed Boon explains the origins of Mortal Kombat 1's new "Kameo" system.

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Mechanics 218

Game Developer

AUGUST 12, 2024

Claire Kwong, creator of experimental video game installation Between, shares her findings after exploring the idea of physical touch as a game mechanic.

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Mechanics Games 335

Game Developer

JULY 15, 2024

The beta for Firewalk Games' Concord shows off a surprisingly rich deckbuilding-inspired game mechanic.

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Beta Mechanics Dev Games 325

Juego Studio

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But this fascination comes to a halt, when a debate on game design fundamentals begins what comes first, the theme or the mechanics? Game design is a fascinating blend of strategy and art. This is the question that comes to all the game designers at the very first step when starting to create a game.

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Game Designer Game Design Mechanics Art 121

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Skala allows players to change the size and shape of the world and everything in it, asking them to solve puzzles by stretching and growing things.

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Mechanics Puzzle 210

Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Game Bakers creative director Emeric Thoa explains why the studio built a limb-by-limb climbing mechanic from scratch.

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Mechanics Studios Games 320

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Nearly a week after the launch of Runescape's Hero Pass, Jagex is stripping it of pay-to-win elements heavily criticized by the player community.

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Mechanics 210

Game Developer

AUGUST 31, 2023

I Hate You, Please Suffer twists standard turn-based RPG mechanics to tell a punk-rock, anticapitalist tale.

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Mechanics 349

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Game developers weigh in on the "utter perfection" of giant mechanical robots.

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Game Development Game Developer Development Mechanics 345

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baba is You creator Arvi Teikari explains how they created an absurd spin-off that plunges players into the world of monotonous white collar crime.

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Mechanics 189

Indie DB

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

This is the first devlog, about 2.5d, being a boomer shooter gamer, mechanics, etc.

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Mechanics 93

Game Developer

JANUARY 31, 2024

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has a simple-but-brilliant mechanic to help players remember hidden locations on the game's massive map.

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Mechanics Games 343

Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

The developers at Humble Reeds talk about how they wove conservationism into the game's mechanics without bogging the them down in the complexities of environmental care.

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Mechanics Development Games 305

Game Developer

JULY 17, 2024

LocalThunk breaks down the various ways players are guided to understand and internalize the deckbuilder's card mechanics.

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Mechanics 294

Game Developer

APRIL 19, 2024

To understand the impact of your mechanics, you need to know how people will react to them. This means that you have to have some kind of mental model of player behavior. The question is, in your model, how much rationality do you assume?

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Mechanics 302

Game Developer

AUGUST 19, 2024

Join us for a discussion on the modes and mechanics that define an emerging genre.

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Mechanics Games 282

Game Developer

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Monster Hunter: Outlanders marks Capcom's first real go at bringing the series' classic gameplay mechanics to phones.

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Mobile Mobile Mechanics 284

Game Developer

MARCH 1, 2023

Cosmic Crew sees a gunner and mechanic running different controller stations, with the gunner spotting foes and shooting them while the mechanic repairs and loads ammo.

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Co-op Mechanics 269

Game Developer

MARCH 28, 2023

Mácula Interactive breaks down the photography mechanic that will allow players to explore post-revolutionary Mexico as photojournalist Juan Aguirre.

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Mechanics 307

Game Developer

MARCH 31, 2023

Ubisoft Toronto's Brandon Hennessy spoke at GDC 2023 about the narrative work that went into Watch Dogs: Legion , and how the game's Play as Anyone mechanic required changes to the narrative team's pipeline.

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Mechanics Games 307

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We had a lot of fun making this game, with a clear scope and framework to start from, and a lot of room for iteration both mechanically and in adding secrets and surprises.

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Mechanics Games 296

Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2024

Phil Crifo talks about the desire and utility of setting a game in their homeland of New Caledonia, as well as how that would shape its mechanics and play.

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Mechanics Games 293

Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

In the past, hybridization was mainly seen in 4X strategy games that merged with puzzle and idle RPG mechanics , but in recent months this phenomenon has spread to titles of all shapes and sizes across the market – not just the hybrid-casual genre. Mechanically, the mode is relatively similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics 265

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Mechanical Hand The studio’s upcoming game, Atomic Picnic, is the brainchild of the company’s CEO, Camilla Slotfeldt. Like a mechanical hand and survival aspects inspired by the ‘ Roadside Picnic ’ novel.” “It works so well that when Covid hit it was just another day’s work and nothing really changed for any of us.”

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Studios Playtesting Concepts Games 129

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Their approach was to mix familiar mechanics with something fresh: “What we hadn’t seen attempted at the time, was mixing the genre with something darker, and more adventurous. Laser focus The homestead-building mechanic stands out as one of the highlights for the two-man dev team.

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Sandbox Mechanics Pixel Games 145

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Overall, these kind of generally hard-to-obtain win-more mechanics exist to make players who get them feel good and have a memorable game experience, while the players on the receiving end dont really feel that much worse. They arent really random so they can be both planned for and against.

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Mechanics Dev Fighting Balance 52

PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We throw ideas around, different puzzle mechanics, narrative elements and unique interactions,” Olczyk says. We love exploring different styles of puzzles, logic, pattern recognition, environmental interactions and even experimental mechanics like cooperative dialogues.” “We never run out of puzzle ideas! .

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Puzzle Mechanics Communications Studios 138