Art Balance Mechanics Prototyping 
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 8, 2023
Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same. In this blog, we will discuss the difference between game art vs game design and how each plays a unique role in game development. What is the difference between game art vs game design?
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 30, 2023
They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. I wanted to keep the art abstract enough so that players’ minds could fill in the details. The rest was experimentation guided by a few ideas.
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PreMortem.Games
MARCH 20, 2023
They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. I wanted to keep the art abstract enough so that players’ minds could fill in the details. The rest was experimentation guided by a few ideas.
Radiator Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.
Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 23, 2017
You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. I can’t really see so well, so art and graphic layout don’t bother me. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. This also applies to not spending a lot of time on the art or graphic design.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 8, 2017
I wait until I have all the art assets I need. With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. This is a checklist I like to check off before I start final testing: Get the physical prototype ready. The drafting mechanic allows for players to plan their road trips to a limited degree. All art is done.
Keith Burgun
JANUARY 4, 2023
For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.
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