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Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense.
Brand Game Development
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Once the core engine and mechanics are in place, board games can be dragged down by easy-to-fix but hard-to-identify issues. Once you reach this point, your game is sell-able.
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Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In keeping with our theme of nostalgia, I will also talk about which of my four favorite nostalgic game mechanics it incorporates. These four nostalgic game mechanics are: Dynamic character roles Great art or colors Incorporates a clicking noise Tactile, but not needlessly fidgety. Person with the highest point count wins.
Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 20, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. I’m just adding another mechanic and a tweaking a few rules. Major issues are ones that involve sweeping changes to the game such as new mechanics or sweeping rule changes.
Grid Sage Games
MAY 8, 2022
Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 11, 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. Short-term mechanic testing. This is to make sure the game is – on some fundamental level – balanced. They explain, limit, and clarify.
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