PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.” The day to day.

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Developing a rich and immersive game world is a complicated and multi-disciplinary process. To build a truly immersive gaming environment, a team of designers, developers, artists and programmers employ a combination of psychology, art and technology into video games that challenge and capture players, resulting in satisfying gameplay.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 15, 2014

Gary had done a lot of art long before we had a running game, hence the near finished screen without the verbs. A map of the mansion right after Gary and I did a big pass at cutting the design down. Gary and I were trying to make sense of the mansion and how the puzzles flowed together. More design flow and ideas.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 16, 2022

Award-winning educational gaming website offers 1000+ learning activities for kids in grades K to 5, both educational and interactive. The website covers math, social studies, language and arts, typing, science, creativity, and logic. The game supports young minds to create new skills more efficiently while promoting fun.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Candace Thomas (Game Designer) , a veteran designer with vast experience in the MMO genre, having worked at World of Warcraft , the canceled Lord of the Rings MMO by Amazon Studios, and more recently at upcoming Riot’s MMO (wait, is this bad news for the LoL MMO!? I won’t forgive you for that, Supercell!)

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This analysis is written by Taras Koshelev (Lead Game Designer at My.Games Venture Capital) who focused on game mechanics and loops and Michail Katkoff (Founder of Savage Game Studios) who covered the market and marketability. Playrix released Puzzle Breakers into soft-launch in late 2019. Puzzle RPGs on Mobile.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Both are a mix of art and science. Industry peers asked me: “What games will you make?” “Do Do you have a concept in mind?” Will you make another puzzle game?”. Some of the puzzle games I’ve worked on. Puzzles are one of the biggest market categories and it continues to grow each year.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In 2023, the game I'm most proud of in my long and distinguished career as a game designer will be twenty years old. Why is this game so beloved? Before I talk about the ghosts, I need to start with where this game began. But I was wrong - we had one more game together.   Aether and Stonewall.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The first big mistake most developers make is starting with pretty art, making a simple prototype, and then expect to develop the rest of the game the same way. Elaborated below: 1) Who will play the game? Just try to picture who is going to play the game. A mainstream audience, e.g.: an RPG, FPS or strategy game.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Video games today are far more immersive than ever, and that isn’t simply because consoles and PCs have gotten more powerful. A lot of the beauty and appeal in modern games comes down to a less quantifiable factor: Atmosphere. When we talk about a game’s ‘atmosphere’, we don’t mean things like virtual clouds.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

Before I get started, I should make it clear which context it is that I’m talking about: single player, somewhat narrative driven videogames, like RPGs or adventure games. This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle.

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Keith Burgun

JUNE 18, 2022

Indeed, one of the main starting points for the design was that it wouldn’t be a puzzle, standing in contrast to the highly puzzle-like nature of Advance Wars. I don’t really care about words, though, as long as we all agree on the concepts. Meeting people where they are. Going forward.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This, in fact, was what my signature design style was. Highly narrative, intricate puzzles, and immersive storytelling. Crafting in other games was mostly one-off stuff tied to quests, or really simple magic item creation. Not that I coined them, of course; the concepts were very much in the air. And crafting!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

Likewise, art history buffs tapped into the declining prestige of Jackson Pollock. A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. For a market game designer, revealing information should be an orchestrated event.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A broughlike is a variation on a roguelike named after designer Michael Brough , who has spoken before on his design patterns like square tiles, orthogonal movement, turn parity, glitching, limited info, simple maze designs, minimal resources. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters.

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