SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In today’s tutorial, we take things a step further by teaching you how to use triggers and switches in order to help you create more interesting game mechanics. Triggers are powerful tools in the world of game design because you often use triggers to accomplish common game objectives. Want to Make Video Games?

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 11, 2022

It's such a big, unique, popular game that not picking it apart a bit is game-writer malpractice. Even if you hate From Software games, and many do, if you care about game design as an art, it's worth a good look. Either NPC characters, ghost monsters, or actual human players. In reality, it has two.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) And as the Vestal, she administers the local election, and in this ancient Roman city only the male NPC citizens are allowed to vote.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 19, 2023

But the game doesn't tutorialize this or dispatch an NPC to spell it out. The game also hides a bigger unexplained mechanic: a relationship gifting system. You're just an NPC in their story. Your problems are your own, and the first step is realizing you have a problem. It's hilarious that gifting feels secret.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

For example, I might want to set a trap in my game if my player walks onto a certain area of the graph. If a Non Player Character (NPC) or enemy enters into the region, it wouldn’t trigger the trap. Booleans are used a lot in game making because they allow you to create branching logic. Want to Make Video Games?

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is similar to my tactics games writeup and Enderal (huge Skyrim mod) writeup where I spoil some interesting game designer / systems design things. I don't discuss much of the game narrative. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. It would feel terrible.

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Setting that up properly is an effort in storytelling, a discipline all its own distinct from game design. But what’s important is that you always feel that basic “pull” towards that conclusion, which really isn’t as simple as it sounds to create.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier in MUD design, these zones even “repopped” all at once. It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. It’s stuff that single-player game designers know how to do. Why did something like that come to be?

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A single run also doesn’t take too long (1~2 hours), so players have a chance to quickly start finding items they’ve never seen before, or only rarely, even after becoming pretty familiar with the game. Other types of NPCs can modify or convert other types of items. A TGGW inventory/equipment list.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

From the perspective of fantasy art design, it is an ideal goal to set the whole world to be coherent, unobtrusive, and logically self-consistent - But this may not be the ultimate goal of online game design. These dialogues, sounding more akin to whispering, usually take place among the crowds of NPCs who don't have names.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Addressing the initial learning curve, introducing enticing mid-game offers, and refining unlocking progression are essential for the game’s long-term success. With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends. ?

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Addressing the initial learning curve, introducing enticing mid-game offers, and refining unlocking progression are essential for the games long-term success. With Blizzard's expertise in creating compelling end-game content, Warcraft Rumble has the potential to become a major success and influence future game design trends.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In this situation, the NPC knows what you're here for and he wants it too, even if you kinda hate each other. This dynamic runs counter to most video game romances, where we generally assume the "good end" = sex end = complete soulmates = rare and complex. Sometimes people have sex with someone they don't like.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes. So in hindsight, a better game design analogy for sexual roles would've been "stances" or "buffs" that freely change and/or stack. However, my code randomly assigns different body types, skin colors, and clothing.

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