Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Click here. Every opinion – however misinformed you may believe to be – is a data point. As in rigorous scientific experiments, data points are to be gathered accurately and then interpreted later. Choose something to pay extra close attention to, such as balance, communication, or accessibility.

Balance 130

Balance Point and Click Dev Communications 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Click here. I wait until I have all the art assets I need. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. All art is done. Highways & Byways is no different.

Point and Click 130

Point and Click Dev Games Prototyping 130

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. A large majority of the art was created from scratch, but Hartley admits having used a few asset packs to help speed up development. “I For me personally it spread me too thin across Art, SFX, Designs, Visual Scripting, Writing and Marketing Material.

Studios 104

Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! Sean: Guidelines for writing good rules really boils down to learning the art of instruction and communication. I’d say the main tool set for understanding and wielding that art form is empathy. This is to make sure the game is – on some fundamental level – balanced.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 21, 2021

Castle Clash by IGG, War Dragons by Pocket Gems and Art of Conquest by Lilith all came down between 15 to 35 percent compared to 2019. By all accounts this genre is matured to a point where it could use a massive innovation to both the progression mechanics and social gameplay. Card Battlers used to be a sub-genre led by Hearthstone.

Mobile 52

Mobile Mobile Cross platform Puzzle 52

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And the point is that you… because you get so used to selling the idea, ultimately you'd know nothing about that idea until you market tested it, until you've, like, started building it, until you start getting some data. Gigi brought up a good point about the kinds of companies I sort of have three in my head about video games.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52