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The Growing Use of Generative AI in Game Design

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This growing use of generative AI is largely attributed to its advanced capabilities, including the ability to create unique content. Generative AI has experienced increasing usage in game design as it accelerates and streamlines different aspects of game development.

Game Design

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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same. In this blog, we will discuss the difference between game art vs game design and how each plays a unique role in game development. Who is a Game Designer?

Game Design

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Clockwork Game Design Podcast – Episode #94 – 2022 wrap-up

Keith Burgun

JANUARY 10, 2023

Thanks for listening, and as always, this show has no ads and the only way it’s funded is through Patreon , so consider donating if you like the content! This is kind of a “bonus episode” of sorts, only 30 minutes long.

Game Design

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REVEIL Reveals New Gameplay Showcase! Soak up the Atmos-fear while the Developers Unravel Insights on the Games’ Design Philosophy

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Join content creator CozyGamerKat for a talk with REVEIL's c reative directors Bennet Jeutter and Steffen Schaller.

Game Design

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How do you get (or work towards) a promotion as a game designer?

Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In order to do this, one needs to increase her understanding of the way the systems and content interact by guarding against future possible edge cases and issues that she foresees others on the team bringing up, and being able to articulate all of the elements needed to craft the experience she's trying to create.

Game Design

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Kyzrati’s Game Design Philosophy

Grid Sage Games

MAY 8, 2022

That I keep revisiting this aspect whenever I add new content shows that it is indeed an ingrained part of the vision. I want my games to be challenging but fair. So numbers aside, we also have to take play style into account with regard to balance, and content and mechanics that spark debate between players is a good thing.

Game Design

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The importance of a game design document & how to create one – part 2

The Knights of Unity

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the previous part of the post, we’ve introduced you to the most important reasons to create a game design document in your project, using three examples: personal project, internal project, and commission work. Sometimes the creation of a game design document may seem like a defeat, especially the big ones.

Game Design

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Solo dev Jason Nicot on his new project Sanctua “A more mature party game”

PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Since childhood, Nicot always had a fascination with video games, but when it was time to pick a career, game designer wasn’t on the radar. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind. The Sanctua game design document was 95% complete before I started coding.

Dev

Dev Co-op Games Game Design

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. . The post Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store appeared first on Jaunty Bear Games. TextMeshPro is the ultimate text solution for Unity. Universal RP.

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

. “My Co-founder Jakob Schmid and myself created the rhythm based puzzle platformer 140 together back in the day, and we are both interested in integrating music systems with the game design.” Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics.

Puzzle

Puzzle Prototyping Art Communications

The five pillars of emergent gameplay

GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While tools have improved dramatically, allowing smaller teams to produce more graphically and mechanically complex games than ever before, producing equivalent experiences to AAA mega-studios is still prohibitively expensive. Thrilling as a solo ten-hour-long campaign can be, linear content is expensive to produce.

AAA

AAA Mechanics Studios Game Design

My YouTube Channel

Sirlin

JANUARY 21, 2024

I have a YouTube channel about design. Game design mostly, but sometimes design topics in general. Please do the usual “likes and subscribes” if you like my content. It also includes a new video podcast series. Sirlin's YouTube

Game Design

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The Role of Player Behavior Analytics in Gaming

iXie gaming

MARCH 25, 2024

This data includes player preferences, interactions, and in-game actions, to mention a few. By analyzing player behavior data, you can gain valuable insights that can help improve the gaming experience and player engagement and optimize game design. The outcome? A more satisfying and engaging gameplay. The outcome?

Data

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Everything you never wanted to know about burnout

GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 18, 2023

He was followed by Spry Fox lead game designer Alicia Fortier, Blizzard Entertainment lead content designer Osama Dorias, and The Outsiders lead UX designer Anna Brandberg sharing their own experiences with occupation burnout and what they've learned from the ordeal.

UX

UX Entertainment Game Design Game Designer

Designing game content architectures

Lost Garden

JANUARY 3, 2021

As game budgets expand once more, the success of a title often depends on producing large amounts of high quality content. Mistakes setting up your content plans can easily result in panic, shipping delays, scope cuts, rework and crunch. Modern developers live on the content treadmill so we might […].

Content

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Game Designer+Artist or Game Designer+Programmer

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 31, 2010

But onward we march, content in our ignorance. So, my question is: would you rather be a game designer that is also an artist, or a game designer that is also a programmer? The Internet is a house of cards ready to come down with one seldom used Chinese character.

Game Design

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Even though you are a video game designer and not a tabletop one, you have mentioned you play tabletop rpgs before. with that in mind, what are your thoughts on the WOTC OGL fiasco as a game designer and what are your thoughts as a tabletop player?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2023

If they had wanted the players to be better about it, they should have done more to make it better for the D&D players and content creators - maybe more permissible licensing to allow use of official settings/characters/monsters/etc. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Final Factory by Never Games takes automation into space and adds bullet-hell

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Things were getting serious three years later when Ryding decided to quit his job as a software engineer and work full time as a game developer. One of my close friends, Ches Denison, joined me working 5-10 hours a week as a playtester, game designer, and just a general jack-of-all-trades-guy.

Playtesting

Playtesting Games Mobile Mobile

Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

Players can also unlock various masks with unique abilities and customize their character through the in-game shop. Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things.

Tile

Tile Racing Pixel Games

Mystery investigation specialist EQ Studios “All our murder scenes are fictional”

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ideas for the game’s content were inspired mainly from movies and TV shows, while the game designs came from the games the team loves to play, like Everquest for the open world concept and The Vanishing Hitchhiker for the atmosphere. We welcomed the different ideas and incorporated them into the full game.”

Studios

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Video game mechanics: A Beginner’s Guide

Logic Simplified

JULY 31, 2023

There is one area every game designer must focus on to ensure that their games are captivating enough to entertain and provide an impactful experience to the user: game mechanics. When creating a new game, video game mechanics are often considered the most important factor. What are game mechanics?

Mechanics

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Maximizing Acquisition and Retention Through Mobile Game Analytics

iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. These insights help you as a developer to make informed decisions, refine gameplay, deliver tailored experiences that excite players, and optimize in-game economies.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics

Maximizing Acquisition and Retention Through Mobile Game Analytics

iXie gaming

MARCH 22, 2024

Through mobile game analytics, you can identify pain points, personalize content based on players’ preferences, and improve game mechanics. These insights help you as a developer to make informed decisions, refine gameplay, deliver tailored experiences that excite players, and optimize in-game economies.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Mechanics

Appliance Gaming 2020

Lost Garden

MAY 18, 2023

(Note: This was written for the Games of 2020 content put on by Game Developer magazine. The massive success of WiiFit was a wakeup call, not for the game industry, but for Maytag and Whirlpool. With a dash of simple game design, a simple bathroom scale outsold […] I won a free ticket to GDC 2009.)

Games

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Announcing the MCV/Develop 30 under 30 2023

OPM Jobs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

” Kim Parker Adcock | Owner and MD, One Player Mission MEET THE MCV/DEVELOP 30 UNDER 30 Melissa Larsson | Marketing Manager, Square Enix Max Louis | Founder and Studio Director, MLC Lucy Hale | Brand Video Creator, Square Enix External Studios Vijay Gill | Producer, Rocksteady Studios Katy Wood | Senior 3D artist, Hyper Luminal Games Jupiter (..)

Development

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Game of Thrones Predictions from a Game Designer

Sirlin

APRIL 26, 2019

As of this writing, we’re in the 8th year of Game of Thrones seasons with only 4 episodes left, and yet there are numerous major reveals still left. By looking at the show from a game design standpoint, I think we see how a lot of it has to end up. Game of Throne is, on a casual viewing, a very complicated show.

Game Design

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Bukola Akingbade of Kucheza Gaming on nurturing dreams and shaping industries

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

She highlighted the shift from scheduled TV programs where TV was on between 4 pm and 10 pm when she was a child to on-demand content today. She observed an evolution in her children’s preferences from traditional Disney shows to influencer and gameplay content. Access to the internet and video games has changed.

Esports

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Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. Now in a game development team, there are lots of other roles as well.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer Tile Engine

The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

“We are aiming to have a constantly shifting and engaging gaming experience where the visual look and game mechanics are always changing, and everything you come across feels fresh and intriguing.” He’s also planning the overall game design. Now it’s mostly about creating the content of the levels for me now.”

Pixel

Pixel Art Mechanics Demo

Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities

Game Design Aspect

JULY 30, 2021

In this video from 2021 CIMFest, game designers and community managers discuss how to remove toxicity from game communities. Originally scheduled for 2020 GDC, this roundtable on Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities was canceled due to the pandemic.

Game Design

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The Influence of Demographics on the Video Game Industry

Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Knowing the age, gender, location, income level, and other characteristics of potential players allows them to make sure that their games are targeted to specific groups and that the game content resonates with their audience. Demographic information also influences game design decisions.

Educational

Educational Education Data Game Developer

Interview: Netmarble N2 on its new metaverse blockchain game Meta World: My City

Game Daily

MAY 15, 2023

GameDaily: What are the most important features in Meta World My City that you consider to be genuine innovations in blockchain gaming design? Min-Kwan Kwon: We developed Meta World: My City in a way that anyone can enjoy both board games and virtual real-estate collections.

Content

Content Games Game Design Game Designer

A Crash Course in Board Game Development

Brand Game Development

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I tend to use the word game development as a catch-all term for everything that is associated with making a game – that includes game design, product development, marketing, promotion, Kickstarter/crowdfunding, fulfillment, and selling.

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Is it well-defined?

Game Developer

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She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers

PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whereas if 90% of the people in a bar were women, the idea is that the environment is more appealing than the actual content. When it comes to female game developers, it’s not only about the quality of their work but also about the environment they work in. They created videos, and I could see them playing the game.

Game Developer

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“Game critics” often talk about putting critical plot points in DLC, and then when they describe the story in said DLC it’s clear that the original game’s story works perfectly fine without them. But that makes me wonder where the story in the DLCs came from. Is it usually a cut-for-time-or-budget thing, like other early DLC? Ideas that came later (and if so, how much does player feedback affect things)? Ideas that the devs wanted to work in, but that would just clutter the original narrative?

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. Good DLC story content tends to be stuff that meets these general criteria: Is self-contained (i.e. We also can’t always repurpose old content for the story DLC. What is the FANTa project?

Content

Content Mechanics Dev Concepts

Looking at job postings it seems like there is a lot of discrepancy in positions, especially in design. One company’s level designer is another’s mission designer is another’s game designer etc. Is it just a difference in naming convention or are there significant differences in what each role entails between studios? If so, how does it work when you want to change jobs and there might not be an exact position that fits your experience? (talking about big AAA teams with high specialization lvls)

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve held many different titles over the course of my career - scripter, technical designer, system designer, combat designer, game designer, gameplay engineer/programmer, client engineer/programmer, and software engineer/programmer.

Game Design

Game Design Game Designer Dev Engine

Appliance Gaming 2020

Lost Garden

MAY 18, 2023

(Note: This was written for the Games of 2020 content put on by Game Developer magazine. The massive success of WiiFit was a wakeup call, not for the game industry, but for Maytag and Whirlpool. With a dash of simple game design, a simple bathroom scale outsold […] I won a free ticket to GDC 2009.)

Games

Games Game Design Game Designer Content

How to use Kickstarter for your indie game “It’s a tool, not the end goal”

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2024

“If you’re doing a video game campaign, you should not send T-shirts, posters and whatever” For a successful Kickstarter, developers should have a bug-free, visually impressive demo or vertical slice ready, aligning with the final game’s visual standards. Funding goals, influenced by Steam’s pricing trends, are shrinking.

Indy

Indy Communications Games Build

Sirlin on Game Design, Ep 9: Pandante

Sirlin

MARCH 16, 2015

The core game has simplified and streamlined rules and we go through each one and explain why we made these changes. We also cover all the new (optional) content and what it adds to the game. The core game has simplified and streamlined rules and we go through each one and explain why we made these changes.

Game Design

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5 Dominant UX Design Principles Which Are Here To Stay

Logic Simplified

MAY 22, 2024

This is when information architecture and interaction design became essential in UX practice. The 2000s and 2010s brought in digital content on screens of various sizes and resolutions, hence responsiveness gained in significance. With UX taking centre-stage, could user-centered design be far behind?

UX

UX Data Technology Content

How AI is Taking Over the Gaming Industry and What It Means for You with Adnan Chaumette

Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

.” Brandon Pham noted that AI technology has advanced at a rapid pace, observing that “it felt like the last six months have been supercharged in a way that I haven’t seen new technology being thrown in, embraced in the gaming or at least game development scene.” I think consent should have been asked.”

AI

AI Technology Content Art

What are your thoughts on the Technical Designer role? Do you find them helpful? Do you prefer TDs that focus on completing the more technically challenging implementations, or those that focus on tooling and helping others? Also how do they compare to other positions during layoffs?

Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 3, 2024

Over the course of my career, I've swung back and forth across the line between engineering and game design like a pendulum, sometimes leaning more heavily on my technical skills and others depending on my design skills. That likely affects my opinion on the role.

Dev

Dev Engine Engineering Game Design

How making 12 games in 12 months changed Cukia Kimani’s life

PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

Driven by his desire to immerse himself in game design, Kimani rejoined Wits University. Cukia Kimani & Ben Myres He explains, “The reason for me to go back to Wits and do a post-grad in Game Design, to be honest, was the community. I was not just like, ‘hey guys, I made a video game.’

Games

Games Bug Terrain Game Design

The Growing Use of Generative AI in Game Design

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Trending Sources

Clockwork Game Design Podcast – Episode #94 – 2022 wrap-up

REVEIL Reveals New Gameplay Showcase! Soak up the Atmos-fear while the Developers Unravel Insights on the Games’ Design Philosophy

How do you get (or work towards) a promotion as a game designer?

Kyzrati’s Game Design Philosophy

The importance of a game design document & how to create one – part 2

Solo dev Jason Nicot on his new project Sanctua “A more mature party game”

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

The five pillars of emergent gameplay

My YouTube Channel

The Role of Player Behavior Analytics in Gaming

Everything you never wanted to know about burnout

Designing game content architectures

Game Designer+Artist or Game Designer+Programmer

Even though you are a video game designer and not a tabletop one, you have mentioned you play tabletop rpgs before. with that in mind, what are your thoughts on the WOTC OGL fiasco as a game designer and what are your thoughts as a tabletop player?

Final Factory by Never Games takes automation into space and adds bullet-hell

Hypercasual games market is shrinking, still 3.7 billion downloads last 3 months

Mystery investigation specialist EQ Studios “All our murder scenes are fictional”

Video game mechanics: A Beginner’s Guide

Maximizing Acquisition and Retention Through Mobile Game Analytics

Maximizing Acquisition and Retention Through Mobile Game Analytics

Appliance Gaming 2020

Announcing the MCV/Develop 30 under 30 2023

Game of Thrones Predictions from a Game Designer

Bukola Akingbade of Kucheza Gaming on nurturing dreams and shaping industries

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

The gorgeous visuals of Bionic Bay that Juhana Myllys calls Painterly Pixel Art

Designing Non-Toxic Game Communities

The Influence of Demographics on the Video Game Industry

Interview: Netmarble N2 on its new metaverse blockchain game Meta World: My City

A Crash Course in Board Game Development

Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers

Appliance Gaming 2020

How to use Kickstarter for your indie game “It’s a tool, not the end goal”

Sirlin on Game Design, Ep 9: Pandante

5 Dominant UX Design Principles Which Are Here To Stay

How AI is Taking Over the Gaming Industry and What It Means for You with Adnan Chaumette

What are your thoughts on the Technical Designer role? Do you find them helpful? Do you prefer TDs that focus on completing the more technically challenging implementations, or those that focus on tooling and helping others? Also how do they compare to other positions during layoffs?

How making 12 games in 12 months changed Cukia Kimani’s life

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