The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Most people don't actually care about deep dives into game design. But I DO Write Games For a Living I try out lots and lots of video games. Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. It's a trade-off, and game design is about nothing but infinite trade-offs.

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Jesper Juul

JUNE 17, 2022

TL;DR; I used to meet resistance to the idea that video game rules (usually expressed in the programming) and algorithms can be meaningful or important. I discuss four ways game rules can create meaning and/or have political implications. This is also where game design observations interface with education.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Jamey Stegmaier made a civilization game.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

I assumed it was mostly for fans but after watching all 32 episodes (on 2x speed, skipping some parts) I've changed my mind and now I think it's essential viewing for all game designers / devs. This recap post / viewing guide covers only the first half of the series (episodes 01-17) and I'll try to write-up the second half later.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve also been writing more general roguelike-related articles, too, looking at game design , item randomization , and backtracking. You can now find me on Mastodon , too, where I’ll be sharing info about roguelike development, other roguelikes, and of course the occasional Cogmind update. WARLORD FOREVER!

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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 a game designer do?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Bring your computer and work on fixing engine issues or writing documentation under the guidance of core Godot devs. Leszek will demo the development of a 2D game with audience interaction. Ilaria Cislaghi is a game designer working for simedis AG , a company specialised in virtual reality medical simulation.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

In this tutorial we’ll teach you how to use Unity’s free Bolt add-on which will allow you to design video games without writing a line of code. . In a nutshell, Bolt allows you to design video games without having to write a line of code. For example, look at the game I have in front of me now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

When users write code in GDScript within the IDE, everything simply "just works" and you have the added value of live code completion. To make it clearer, it is not our belief that forcing programmers to write code with visual blocks will result in a more efficient workflow. Allow programmers to set up their scenes, AI, etc.

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Visual Scripting Scripting Code Puzzle 52

Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

  To make a playable, exciting and scientifically correct game experience out of so many raw data-sets was just impossible in the time frame of just one semester I had. But on the other hand, this fact made me aware of my competence as a game designer.  The creature designs. Coherent aka.  following

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

Last week, I wrote a blog post about how the video game industry seems to be entering a sad and painful period of contraction. I've been writing these State of Indie posts for a long time. They're usually the most popular things I write. I'm a tiny, tiny figure in a big world, my time is past, and I'm writing depressing things.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Since then we’ve continued to listen and receive feedback from developers of all sizes, and today we are excited to announce eight new and enhanced new AWS for Games solutions across cloud game development, game servers, live operations, game analytics, and game artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Kudos to Neil Long of Mobilegamer.biz for joining the event and writing the notes. State of the mobile game industry Eric Kress, Gossamer Consulting Deconstructor of Fun’s “chief outrage officer” Eric Kress was up first to offer what he called a “pragmatic view of what’s going on in the market.”

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

How you divide your time between making games and living "real life" ? When I write, music is helpful. Dividing my life between making games and real life is a struggle. I also had the idea of making adventure games for kids. I floated it by Lucasfilm Games and they weren't interested. I work on a Mac exclusively.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Of course there are dozens of established techniques that help designers create a sense of wonder – hiding information, increasing interactivity, increasing scope or density, etc – and I’m definitely not saying that you shouldn’t use these.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The term carpet-of-doom is an ironic reference to the “stacks-of-doom” of Civ 4 where an AI could invade with 20+ units stacked on a single tile. Tempting players to make an impulsive decision for a short-term gain but at the risk of a bigger loss later is solid game design. I was very pleased with myself!

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The scope of this rebalance is way too large to cover in its entirety, and while I don’t plan to write about every aspect, we’ll be looking at the broad strokes and pick out some representative examples here and there. This is a pretty good example of the heavy influence interface limitations can have on game design.

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Designer Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Frank Lantz recently interviewed me on Donkeyspace , his excellent Substack, which generally focuses on the current AI boom but, in reality, is about his ongoing work on the human condition. I’m curious about all-human, no-AI Civ. Is it very different from the single-player game vs bots?

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here I depart from Brokeback and take a note from God's Own Country, writing two characters with different ethnicities and upbringings: Jose is a middle class suburban Latino west coaster, and Bud is a white working class rural hill guy. The romantic interest Bud is a local ranchhand assigned as a guide.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Zugzwang attempts to encode these New Sex Urbanism / Sex As Public Health ideologies into a first person broughlike design. Under your watch, these AI men wander the randomly generated sex maze and pair-up for sex based on proximity, line of sight, and sexual compatibility. You play as a sex angel.

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