Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Last Saturday and Sunday, I attended my first board gaming convention – Protospiel in Atlanta. Prototype of a beach volleyball game by Julio Nazario.

Prototyping 130

Prototyping Dev Point and Click Mechanics 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Do not bother with design. Don't apply design patterns or encapsulation for the sake of it. If you are planning to make the code cleaner at some point, it has to be because it gets difficult to work with it. A common excuse for this is teamwork and many programmers working on a game. What makes your game different?

Prototyping 52

Prototyping Alpha Asset Point and Click 52

Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Click this picture for some backstory! They explain, limit, and clarify.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics Concepts Writing Games 130

Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad. Although I saw that Civ 5 ’s 1UPT had become the mainstream conception of a tile-based 4X game, Old World actually went through roughly a year of development WITH stacked units. I was very pleased with myself!

Tile 40

Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics 40

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I think a lot of the time when you end up fundraising, you typically fundraise off the back of an initial product idea or initial, hey, there's an opportunity to make a combine a match-3 and the RPG and the MMO category into that, you know, wild new type of game that. It's a hybrid game. They get to a prototype level.

Games 52

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering 52