Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Click here. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario. Protospiel conventions are based around prototype board games. Prototypes ranged from paper-and-pencil to full-on Game Crafter $100+ sets. It’s been a wild weekend, so I’ve distilled the best of the lessons down to simple points.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Dev Point and Click Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Click here. You need it for five reasons: It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had dozens of people blind play-test Highways & Byways , but there are diminishing returns once you hit a certain point. That’s a good thing!

Point and Click 130

Point and Click Dev Games Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Click here. Playing games exposes you to mechanics and design trends. In fact, I think the point of diminishing return is somewhere in the dozens before your own personal experimentation and experience teaches you more than broad exposure to games will. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? I rebalanced the Event Cards.

Dev 130

Dev Simulation Prototyping Games 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Click here. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. This is a checklist I like to check off before I start final testing: Get the physical prototype ready. Just about every game has some variation of this concern at some point.

Point and Click 130

Point and Click Games Dev Prototyping 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. Short-term mechanic testing. Let’s start with a simple mechanic such as dealing damage. They explain, limit, and clarify. Private testing.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Writing Concepts Games 130

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. A good example is what I’ll call “Every Unit Moves” which is how Civ has always worked.

Tile 98

Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Cocos

APRIL 27, 2023

After understanding some of the future plans from the game team, I decided to start over and create a guide from the perspective of code-writing and logic mechanisms. By this point, the introduction to the Game module is over. When the users click on the START button, the level Action in the action-game.json will be executed.

Code 52

Code Data Animation Animation 52