SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In this tutorial I’ll walk you through my environmental design process for a game we plan on launching out of our studio soon. . Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). As you might know, and I repeatedly keep saying, this game forms the practical part of my Master thesis. degree of design coherence. degree of design coherence.  

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Progress Quest taught us all how simple our brains where and how easily games could use our mental reward systems against us. At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. And the designer would say, "Yeah, it should. Designers think making an RPG is easier than it is.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The first Civilization game was like a game design thunderbolt, sent from the heavens and marking everything it touched.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Cogmind began its life as a 7DRL , and a portion of items designed back when the game was overall a very different environment didn’t evolve at the same pace. Before doing a full item-by-item review, I started with two special categories of unique build-defining items: aliens artifacts and Exiles prototypes.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Overall Rogue doesn’t really have many different item characteristics to modify or games systems to interact with, which is a primary limiting factor in the extent of randomization a game can support. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In the time since Garrisons were added, however, a combination of relevant changes to the game started putting pressure on their original design: Many more full branch maps were added, along with factions, each with their own enticing reasons to visit them compared to the weaker incentives for entering a Garrison.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. When we talk about MMO, many may relegate this game category to “old-school” or “niche.” Amazon Games has finally made its name after the tough launch of New World.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. is the ability to export games coded in C#, as such it's not fully usable in production yet. Visual scripting is ideal for non-programmers, or for programmers exposing behaviors to game designers, artists, etc.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Last month I attended a conference on computational modeling in games in Banff. The question, in a nutshell – can we discover a well-defined property of game systems that corresponds, roughly, to what designers and players mean by “depth”? We are only looking at the very focused domain of game-as-problem.

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