PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

All this before there’s ever any playtesting done. It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game. I realized I missed this aspect a lot.

Dev 104

Dev Puzzle Prototyping Playtesting 104

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In playtesting so far this (among other benefits we’ll get to later) is already clearly tempting players who would otherwise always prefer regular branches over infiltrating a Garrison. Some concepts: More enemies could show up? I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy.

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52

Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. Violence is usually the first thing to prototype in an action game, but here it surprised me how much work it took to hack violence into an existing system that had no concept of it. L of semen for each one. So for example, instead of redeeming two men for a +3.0

Code 52

Code Educational Education Prototyping 52