Balance Concepts Prototyping Writing 
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. And generally I maintained a pretty healthy work life balance for the most part of it.
Radiator Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too.
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Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 23, 2017
I’ll also be writing responses for Will. Will: I know for me personally, projects are a big concept. To give a good example, I suck at writing rules and they don’t really interest me. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. How Ben, Sarah, and Will Got Started. Ben: Yeah, thanks for having us!
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 1, 2024
As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Thus I make an effort to use purchased art assets only as a starting point to then be modified into something more unique and fitting of the aesthetic.” “We built a prototype in our spare time and saw the potential. But that’s not all.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 11, 2017
This guide comes in four parts: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Rule writing can be business-like, resembling technicial writing in a lot of ways. Brandon: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? How do you test your rules?
Grid Sage Games
MARCH 10, 2022
Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.
Designer Notes
AUGUST 10, 2021
Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units. Early on, the simplest way to prototype the game was to maintain a strict 1UPT rule (as stacking has the major downside of making the UI much more complicated).
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