Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

However, designing Old World meant that I definitely would get a chance to build the system from scratch – this time without putting citizens on tiles! This part of the system had merit to it; balancing multiple vectors that limit each other is solid game design. The Orders system helped out here in multiple ways.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Despite its relatively small item pool and low emphasis on random variants, Brogue has an even greater emphasis on terrain factors that really help support the dynamic gameplay in a way that keeps repeated runs interesting. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Radiator Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. So I divided the bumpy terrain into quadrants, with big tree roots gating each section. The two big influences for this map were Elden Ring and Halo.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I considered a lot of options here, going as far as thinking of building a new generator from scratch (one that would make encounters much easier to implement), but I liked the established and consistent core theme of existing Garrisons and didn’t want to mess with that. Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;).

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.

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Puzzle Build Feature Balance 52

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The interesting part is that you can see all these statues on the way in, foreshadowing potentially difficult bottlenecks on the way out (assuming you can’t directly confront and outright destroy all the living statues, a decent assumption for many builds).

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. The grand scene).

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. It mimics the crowd simulation systems used by real-world architects to test building and street circulation. But a building is more than just walls and floor, a building also has a program -- a consideration of how it actually lives.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. And if there is then I want to see it, and be able to talk about it and reason about its ramifications. What depth isn’t.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These offer very little control over direction, although based on their rules if you’re aware of the surrounding terrain you can possibly get a decent idea of where one might send you given your current position. TR & NEM So the first and primary form of teleportation is the original alien tech, Transdimensional Reconstructors.

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