Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

one place I’ve encouraged surprise is the facedown card mechanic. If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. If you can give your game a story, you build a whole world of context that draws patterns in the mechanics and the theme.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

There are mechanics in there that nobody’s ever seen!” Building on the above point, many publishers like to create a portfolio of different kinds of games to reduce risks. They could be manufacturers, retailers, designers, or playtesters. “Why wasn’t my [insert original idea] run with?

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdyssey , chronicling the development of Psychonauts 2 from its earliest glimmers of pre-production in 2015 to its final release in 2021.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

You should concentrate on building up your writing portfolio and getting regular game writing work. Their job is to choose the clearest, highest-quality words they can assemble, and (usually) give them to other devs to be put into the game. If so, you probably want to be a game writer. And that’s valid! Championing the vision.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, I’ve even said: “ don’t build a board game, build a business.” The reason is that Cover Your Assets’ core mechanic is deceptively quite compelling. The core mechanic of stealing and defending sets of cards that increase in value is essentially the whole game.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Mechanics that are never quite worth taking advantage of, items that haven’t lived up to their potential, or were later superseded by other options but remained unchanged, or even long-term experiments that were included at some point but never updated/expanded/removed. Categorical Approach.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Observance is a game of stargazing, engine building, and time management. Except that’s not really all, is it?

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Cogmind generally has fewer such direct escape options, but teleport mechanics are out there, if an advanced tech not usually available until the late game. As a general concept teleportation technology exists in quite a few varieties throughout the world of Cogmind, though the player only has access to some of them. Controlled Teleporting?

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I’m reminded of Beta 11’s spicing up the main complex with Heavies and Cargo Convoys , though in this case it’s not just adding one or two new mechanics but instead about turning Garrisons into proper branch maps in terms of content distribution… Encounter Architecture.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

Garret is a sharp guy and a good game dev. ” It’ll be aimed at letting first-time game devs know what they’re getting into with self-publishing. Even if you take out vacation, that’s 9 months – I feel like that’s a surprisingly long time frame to a lot of first time devs.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

After all, he created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! In each of the design diaries that I have written so far, I have focused on a specific game mechanic or isolated portion of the game. In playtesting, the time between turns has rarely been an issue.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

Particularly when hard choices come from simple mechanics. He, after all, created the pattern building game that we call Tasty Humans , so it makes for a great case study! I knew I needed a mechanic that gave players a choice of one adventurer from several options. His unedited original post can be found here.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Can we build a sex dungeon that would do Jane Jacobs proud? If you chain together multiple adjacent partners at the same time, you build up a combo multiplier -- the 1st climax is worth 1 L of semen, but the 4th consecutive climax is worth 4 L. Building up huge group sessions is the key to completing later levels.

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