Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Click here. After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. You need it for five reasons: It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense. It confirms that the core engine and mechanics of your game make intuitive sense.

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Point and Click Dev Games Mechanics 130

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Click here. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. With enough games, outliers tend to balance each other out. This is a checklist I like to check off before I start final testing: Get the physical prototype ready.

Point and Click 130

Point and Click Dev Games Prototyping 130

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.

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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

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.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are some screen’s from the game’s prototyping phase. Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. A good example is what I’ll call “Every Unit Moves” which is how Civ has always worked.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 98

Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad.

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Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 40

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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Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52