Sirlin

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I have a free podcast series on game design, here. In this latest Raw Game Design episode, I discuss how we might use advanced AIs in the Fantasy Strike fighting game, if we had access to some pretty great AI tech. I also have a second podcast that's just for my Patreon supporters.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. Some of my earliest, most enchanted memories of games were in some early RPGs. That has changed over the last few years, and I’m really happy to be back playing games like these.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Hey all, I’m back with a game that is a predecessor to some of my favorite games for this week’s Retro Game Friday. Plot: The plot is pretty standard Fantasy fair, rebel group against an evil corrupt government, etc. Overall: If you loved Final Fantasy Tactics , you might want to give this a try.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. He never worked on a ‘real’ game either. Making games is hard!”

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. He never worked on a ‘real’ game either. Making games is hard!”

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Sirlin

JANUARY 10, 2016

There's a new episode of my Raw Game Design podcast up for my ($10+) patrons, here. That same podcast link also has links to all the other episodes of Raw Game Design too, btw. This is "raw game design" in the truest sense in that we are lost in the forest here. Which modes even exist? How are they arranged?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. Plus a chatty heroine that flogs her enemies with a sharp sword and even sharper one-liners.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Canadian indie game development studio Excellent Rectangle just launched their debut title Tape to Tape on Steam Early Access. Combining the world of ice hockey with a roguelite may seem like an odd match, but for game designer Hugo Julien and his fellow co-founders Jean-Nicolas and Mathieu Fortin, it was a natural choice.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It’s no secret that board game publishers like to reduce risks. Most publishers have a system in place to help them filter marketable game ideas from unmarketable game ideas. Yet the process, so heavy on rejection, has left many game designers heartbroken. Need help on your board game?

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We have just started a Kickstarter for our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. We started this five game series in 1999, and Geneforge 1 came out in 2001. Dwarf Fortress is the banner Olde Game these days, but the first Geneforge game was out and selling before it was even started.) Final Fantasy VII. Nothing is.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As you might expect, this is also the time of year when a lot of people to go to Google and type in “top 10 board games for Christmas 2019.” ” Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. Why are certain games popular right now?

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 17, 2020

For the last several years, wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns have redefined the rules of success in the board game industry. You no longer had to submit your game to publishers or raise a bunch of money to bankroll your own print run. Need help on your board game? The board game industry is growing up.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to game development, visuals do matter. However, when choosing a method for the game’s visual presentation, many people reach a dead end, and numerous questions arise. You may wonder what kind of game art will suit your project, highlight its essence, and meet the purpose. . Leading 3D Game Art Styles.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 15, 2019

Board games have been absurdly popular for the last several years. In 1999, the possibility of the board game industry experiencing a massive renaissance like the one we’ve all been witness to was laughable. Then, serendipitously, one by one, the obstacles toward the modern board gaming landscape fell away.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

More than 730,000 video game apps are available for download on Google Play and the App Store. Over 10,000 video games are released each year on Steam and other platforms. With so many video games on the market, an avid gamer may have a hard time choosing one to play. Game analysis is crucial in the industry.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Learn about how complete your board game should be before you take it to Kickstarter, about the "magic word," and about shipping shipping shipping! While most of the episode is about Kickstarters for board games, later in the episode we cover the extra challenges of doing a Kickstarter for a video game.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have revolutionized the gaming industry, enhancing programming and player experiences. As AI continues to advance, the future of art and AI in game development holds tremendous promise. However, AI is redefining the boundaries of game artistry.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 24, 2019

The latest game from Pangea Games is launching on Kickstarter. Tasty Humans is a 30-60 minute, tile-laying, pattern-building game for 1-4 players. You are a fantasy monster trying to sate your insatiable appetite. Need help on your board game? It would have been a crime to leave this game unpublished.

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Game Wisdom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How Bethesda Designs for Moments Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Starfield has been released lately and is a huge deal for the industry — with this being the first original IP from Bethesda in years, and taking the fantasy developer to the realm of the sci-fi.

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Sirlin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We discuss "easy special moves" in fighting games. What is a game with "easy special moves" actually trying to do? Moves being easy—in and of itself—tells you nothing about whether the techniques and combos in a game are easy to do or not. What is a game with "easy special moves" actually trying to do?

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I say more about each game on the podcast, so make sure to check that out. Sadly, also a way overly complicated combat system and overall it has “modern videogame over-smoothed-ness” IN STARS AND TIME – Very cool game that I recommend you go check out. Here are some quick bullet points, though!

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

All are story-intensive role-playing games featuring myriad characters and large, explorable worlds. They also show – in their different ways – that there are many ways to create excitement and energy in the market, through bold game design, smart marketing, and intelligent planning, not to mention confident investment.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s a puzzle-solving, tile placement board game for 1-4 players where you play as a fantasy monster who’s hungry for villagers. We could not be happier with how the campaign turned out, and the game is available for pre-order now ! Need help on your board game? This was a small, tight, humble, simple project.

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Gamesbrief

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And one of the main things I want to go is to make games. So, as my health improves – and I’m maybe 40% on the road to recovery – I’m going to step up to help Andrew Smith at Spilt Milk Studios make great games. And our first game together will be Trash Goblin. appeared first on Gamesbrief.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

Welcome to the inaugural post of Start to Finish: Publish and Sell Your First Board Game. In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. What is a game?

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Yobob Games

AUGUST 9, 2022

Harvest Island is a Story Driven Game. There aren’t a lot of story driven games in the farming genre. In fact, there’s one game that comes close to it and it’s rune factory, but that’s a flip of a coin because the main goal of rune factory is to farm and get marry just like the other farming simulator.

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iHobo

JULY 12, 2023

Ten Player Motives #10 Discussing the narrative motive, we came up against an essential problem of using games as a storytelling medium: the player expects to have influence within the game world. Not between stories and games, as the line is typically drawn, but between agency and narrative.

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iHobo

JULY 5, 2023

Ten Player Motives #9 When I talk about our motives for playing games, I am usually able to identify a clear set of emotions that show the psychological underpinnings of why we are drawn to play that way. This same impulse can be found in our relationship with games because, well, there's no escaping it!

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Raph Koster is one of gaming’s most renowned designers of online play worlds, like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. As author of the highly influential book A Theory of Fun for Game Design, he’s a sought-after commentator on the state of gaming. And that’s the heart of roleplay too.”

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Keith Burgun

MAY 10, 2023

I also talk a bit about Trails in the Sky: First Chapter which I’ve been playing a bunch on and off over the past month or so, as well as a bunch of other games. And of course my Final Fantasy episode. Finally, I answer a bunch of questions from people on the Discord. Please let me know what you think below in the comments!

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our tiny company has been earning (well, "earning") a good living making indie computer games for 27 years now. We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. Our game design is quite solid, but the stories we tell is what keeps us in business. I'm not a great fantasy writer. Never have.

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Keith Burgun

MARCH 13, 2024

Videogames, at least the kind I’m talking about (RPGs, adventure kinds of somewhat narrative videogames, Zelda games, Elden Ring, etc), have essentially three “places”: Outside – Hyrule field. Most of the game is Outside, just running around in a grassy area or a snowy mountain.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

In brief, although expanding a competitive game to a cooperative audience may seem like a good way to grow, this pivot requires immense development effort and a different monetization model. Boasting a colorful cast of heroes with vibrant personalities and distinctive playstyles, Overwatch is a master class in character design.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Codex is a new take on customizable card games. Last week I posted a new Raw Game Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) where I discuss "reset buttons" in Codex (cards that blow up the board so you can possibly come back from a very bad position). Here's a rundown of what I've been doing over on my Patreon lately.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. What is Unity?

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