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GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

But before I explain the narration, I want to jump back in time when I started building the endless terrain generator. But on the other hand, this fact made me aware of my competence as a game designer.  The idea of a helping instance was indeed present in a very early stage of the concept. Just with other designs.

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Coherent Creature Design

Mnenad

Designing the game world's creatures. As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. I found the following website, al.chemy.org , as a reference for concept artist which exactly belong to the topic above. 

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Item Variants and Randomization in Roguelikes

Grid Sage Games

Moria’s descendant Angband also included ego items ( over 100 properties), but expanded the concept of randomized items even further by adding the option to activate “Randomly Generated Artifacts,” abbreviated “randarts.” The first roadblock actually has nothing to do with game design at all, but architecture.

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Rebalancing Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

The scope of this rebalance is way too large to cover in its entirety, and while I don’t plan to write about every aspect, we’ll be looking at the broad strokes and pick out some representative examples here and there. This is a pretty good example of the heavy influence interface limitations can have on game design.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). and not be compatible with many of the encounters anyway, since knowing which direction the player will enter from is often an important part of their design. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy. If available, that is.

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That Lonesome Valley as cowboy coin crusher

Radiator Blog

Here I depart from Brokeback and take a note from God's Own Country, writing two characters with different ethnicities and upbringings: Jose is a middle class suburban Latino west coaster, and Bud is a white working class rural hill guy. You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia.

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