Game Developer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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

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Mechanics Agent Games 235

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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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 238

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 240

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 333

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

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 226

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 89

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 345

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 336

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 328

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 214

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 214

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 325

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 Developer Game Development 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

Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics? So let’s get started.

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Mechanics Puzzle Games Balance 98

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 311

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 305

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 297

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 306

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 313

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 297

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 303

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 312

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 270

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 312

Game Errors

JANUARY 31, 2023

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 is available on Steam and it seems that the game encounters a lot of errors. In this 2018 version, Car Mechanic Simulator seems to be poorly optimized and players reported launching issues, black screen, crashes, low frame rates, drops of fps, and freezes.

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Mechanics Simulation PC FPS 96

Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2024

There is no need to implement mechanics and parameters that are not capable of creating interesting situations even theoretically.

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Mechanics Games 246

Game Developer

JANUARY 12, 2023

"When we set out to make the next installment in the series, we knew we had to nail the economy aspect, making it both believable as a real-world historical model and compelling as a game mechanic."

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Mechanics Games 274

Game Developer

MAY 13, 2024

'Once we'd settled on using words for everything, the ideas for mechanics just kept coming.'

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Mechanics 233

Game Developer

JUNE 20, 2023

Square Enix's 2022 game Chocobo GP has been updated to completely cut out its microtransactions and free-to-play mechanics.

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Mechanics Games 256

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 3, 2023

How many times do you need to show a hooky idea or game mechanic in a trailer for people to understand it? The reason it’s good to show something 2-3 times is firstly because if you only show it once, the person watching might miss it entirely and if you never show it again they could be missing out on a key game mechanic.

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Mechanics Games Editing Animation 238

Game Developer

JANUARY 18, 2023

Europe's Parliament plans on regulating loot boxes in video games and ensuring that the controversial mechanic doesn't take advantage of young players.

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Mechanics Games 246

Game Refinery

AUGUST 2, 2023

The progression mechanic is based on watching ads, with each ad increasing the number of rewards for the next pull. Purposeful game mechanisms built around ads are a genius way to increase CTR rates and create a positive user experience that adds to retention. Dragonscapes Adventure’s floating reward prompt.

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Mechanics Build Feature Mobile Gaming 94