PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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. I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. What’s your creative process? “My In which time period is it set?’

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. You’re working in a bubble for 12 hours a day to get that last build ready for the demo and then suddenly: BOOM! Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. Make the demo bigger and better.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This two part series on how to build and grow products with data is written by, Oleg Yakubenkov , CEO @ GoPractice. There are many more ways how data can increase your chances of building and operating a successful mobile game. No one tried to challenge whether it was worth building what the team originally had in mind.

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Interesting Choices

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece. The rapid feedback and iteration cycles enabled by this level of playtesting mean that the game is currently in fantastic shape. Limited play decisions.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Compared to his contemporaries and successors, Barragán didn't make a lot of buildings nor design huge cities. It should feel surprising and overwhelming to fight so many so early in the map. When the player backtracks to find the key they may have missed, they will fight these ogres, and hopefully notice the silver key at that point.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 26, 2023

This builds anticipation - leveling up should be something that the player looks forward to doing, and that isn’t possible if leveling up doesn’t actually do anything. Earning a level should be a fairly uncommon experience - players need time for the anticipation of the next level to build or it won’t feel meaningful.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

I must say this has been an exciting time, having the opportunity to revisit everything to iron out as many kinks as possible, in many places adding new build possibilities or even whole new mechanics. Categorical Approach. As an example, by far the most sought after prototype was Lightpack 2.0,

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In fact, I was unsure throughout the entirety of building the system, which made it rather challenging to work up the motivation to power through a lot of what needed to be done (I normally need to see a clear goal to help with that!). Creating a construct and modifying one are two rather different processes. Construct Creation.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

I considered a lot of options here, going as far as thinking of building a new generator from scratch (one that would make encounters much easier to implement), but I liked the established and consistent core theme of existing Garrisons and didn’t want to mess with that.

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