Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 4, 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. I believe writing a rule is very much an art form. Mechanics are how you bring the basic ideas to life. Sean: Rules recursion is a fascinating concept.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Click here. The basic idea of the core engine is “what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.” The game’s mechanics center around that.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Between 7 Subtle Player Behaviors You Should Notice When Play-Testing and The Art of the Play Test: Designing Tests and Keeping Records , you might think that’s all I’ve got on my mind. Period, point blank. The game can stand alone.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To manage this situation effectively, Dream11 uses an auto scaling mechanism named “Scaler” to monitor vital metrics such as concurrent user count and request rates, and then allocates resources appropriately. The next section details a recently encountered situation that illustrates this concept.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

At every point in the skill spectrum, players should see a path to improve, as well as see greater winnings as a result of their improvement. Clicking on dots that move around a screen may be tedious. However, if the dots are monsters and clicking shoots a fireball, it becomes fun. Skill curve.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Click here. The analogy is morbid, but the concept is simple. This is actually separate from the previous point. Bear in mind that by this point, I’d already failed at Kickstarter once. 8: I did not finish the box art before the campaign. I was posting cool sci-fi art and corporate satire.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. You just click on them to challenge, and that’s it. It’s intentional that you click once to challenge, they accept, then you are playing. You would touch their name on a list and call them. No more UI than that is needed.

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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.

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