The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Most people don't actually care about deep dives into game design. But I DO Write Games For a Living I try out lots and lots of video games. If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. The reason is obvious. Wise choice.

Cutscenes 81

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 81

Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

I used GenoTerra to research and reflect about the design process using procedural generation in the creation of base shapes that the designer/s in a studio can use to create a more coherent game world. Using such techniques can cause problems in the coherence of the worlds that adversely affect the game experience.

Prototyping 52

Prototyping Terrain Open World Rigging 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). and not be compatible with many of the encounters anyway, since knowing which direction the player will enter from is often an important part of their design. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy. If available, that is.

Beta 52

Beta Content Balance Mechanics 52