Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click this picture for some backstory! This is where most of the rules have been ironed out and are acceptable enough to use during a prototype either in person or online through something like Tabletopia or Tabletop simulator. This is to make sure the game is – on some fundamental level – balanced.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the “single-player market” may sound like an oxymoron, innovative games like Shop Titans and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator tell stories through their in-game markets. 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. Skill curve.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Asset Balance 52

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. Fantasy Strike uses GGPO’s rollback-style netcode, which at this point is not an innovation.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy Feature Fighting Point and Click 52

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) Expanding on that, the designer now also has reliable points at which to determine specifically what the player has and has not done by then, a fact that won’t change going forward. A DCSS dungeon map linked from the wiki.

Point and Click 52

Point and Click Mechanics Open World Feature 52