PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. If I’m happy with this design, I’ll prototype it and test that prototype. I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

The motivation for this article is that many devs asked me to write it for a long time. If you are writing a game, just write things as fast as you can and as simple as you can. Let them work the way they like, quick and dirty, but just make sure they write clean APIs to communicate with other programmers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 12, 2023

But before you continue, I’d like to make a disclaimer: As you know, I always try to offer an exhaustive and impartial assessment of the games I write about. The timing of the Floodrush beta is puzzling because playing Squad Busters just before Floodrush remarks the weaknesses in the latter. So here we want to give a quick look at it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 22, 2021

Especially since the game seeks to dominate the puzzle genre, which is the largest and arguably the most competitive genre in mobile games. Early revenue per download data shows that it outperforms other Classic Match-3 titles and is as strong as full Puzzle & Decorate games, suggesting that players like the direction. It made $5.1

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

I first prototyped it back in 2019, but I didn't really know how to finish it. Originally this was prototyped as "Saugzwang" and I made it for the 7 Day Broughlike Jam back in 2019. A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. L of semen for each one.

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