Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Click here – it will take you right to the updates at the bottom of the page. Highways & Byways is ready for blind play-testing, and I’ll be spending this weekend setting up a plan on how I’m going to coordinate testing from this point forward. Period, point blank. Need help on your board game?

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Click here. The basic idea of the core engine is “what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game.” The game’s mechanics center around that.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Click here. It’s been a wild weekend, so I’ve distilled the best of the lessons down to simple points. They look for mechanics and general play-ability. On the flip side, with a polished prototype, people will spot everything – unclear rules, ambiguous text, crappy mechanics, and so on.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 17, 2022

Head on over to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast or click on the episode below! But beyond that point, Clash Mini sank in the charts. This points out that new playable content is consumed faster than in other SC games. This analysis is written by Hadrian Semroud , Javier Barnes and Krishna Israney.

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Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

Recently a player asked me a question regarding my game balance philosophy, and while I can often respond to queries by pointing to some previous article, despite all my writing and no doubt occasionally touching on related topics, I had yet to explicitly do any sort of summary of the philosophy behind my gamedev work. Difficulty.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

To manage this situation effectively, Dream11 uses an auto scaling mechanism named “Scaler” to monitor vital metrics such as concurrent user count and request rates, and then allocates resources appropriately. The next section details a recently encountered situation that illustrates this concept.

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Tom Francis

DECEMBER 18, 2015

I’ll keep this spoiler-free and then let people who’ve seen it click the spoiler buttons for what I’m specifically talking about. Click for spoilery specifics. Finn , as a character concept, is new: a turncoat Stormtrooper. Click for spoilery specifics. I enjoyed it a lot! Spoiler stuff follows.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

At every point in the skill spectrum, players should see a path to improve, as well as see greater winnings as a result of their improvement. Clicking on dots that move around a screen may be tedious. However, if the dots are monsters and clicking shoots a fireball, it becomes fun. Skill curve.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Click here. The analogy is morbid, but the concept is simple. This is actually separate from the previous point. Bear in mind that by this point, I’d already failed at Kickstarter once. As a result, very few people clicked on them. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? 11: I underestimated taxes.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

The big change that always gets mentioned when going from Civ 4 to Civ 5 is one-unit-per-tile (1UPT), which is interesting as 1UPT is purely a mechanical – as opposed to thematic – change. Few people called for the return of stacks-of-doom, but critics pointed out that carpets-of-doom were just as bad.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t go heavy on realism, in which case backtracking for this reason can be considered a non-issue and solely a decision to be made within the greater mechanical design, though this does mean progress ends up feeling gamier overall. but it gets the point across (open image for full size). Meta Complexity.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. You just click on them to challenge, and that’s it. It’s intentional that you click once to challenge, they accept, then you are playing. You would touch their name on a list and call them. No more UI than that is needed.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Actors often hold up objects awkwardly so you can click on them. A high concept with a high execution. And yet it doesn't get more mechanically complicated. This time it's a variety of footage from three different fake movies. Videos end on a convenient frame with an obvious clickable.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 10, 2023

This concept of “secret” doesn’t really make sense in a strategy game, contest, or a puzzle. Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism.

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 19, 2018

Know how to describe mechanics that are in your game and see who it appeals to. Some people dislike “take that” mechanics because they’re too mean-spirited, such as the well-regarded reviewer, Rahdo. It’s no use selling a game with “take that” mechanics to him, then, is it? Know exactly who you’re trying to appeal to.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And the point is that you… because you get so used to selling the idea, ultimately you'd know nothing about that idea until you market tested it, until you've, like, started building it, until you start getting some data. Gigi brought up a good point about the kinds of companies I sort of have three in my head about video games.

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