Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 14, 2018

Failure can involve missed deadlines, lost clients, scrapped prototypes, controversial public statements, or no-show events. Game Design: The process of taking a game’s specifications and turning them into a functional game with mechanics, rules, and components. Not all failure comes in the form of unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation over DMs in Discord. I’ll also be writing responses for Will. To give a good example, I suck at writing rules and they don’t really interest me. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting. Brandon: Excellent!

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Prototyping Playtesting Games Game Design 130

Brand Game Development

MARCH 16, 2020

You are not forced to make any edits to your work for any reason. You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. Publishers have all sorts of vetting mechanisms in place that keep you from going to market with a bad game.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Game rules are how we regulate the mechanics of our games so that they are consistent with the messages we want to send to players. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our direct messages on Discord. This guide comes in four parts: What are some guidelines for writing good rules? Short-term mechanic testing.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

With various other developers, I’ve talked about all the different parts that go into making a board game: the core engine , the mechanics , rules , and storytelling / internal narrative. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation via Facebook Messenger. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

We rather think of an ideal or prototype bird like this one over here from a kid's science book. He writes about how players must be able to determine if a creature is a friend or enemy just by its shape and from long distance. I'm looking forward to share the mechanic and story behind of the game in the upcoming post.

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