Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As we navigate this evolving terrain, perhaps the future of education is not about replacing traditional methods but integrating games as a complementary tool. In a world where ‘curiosity is king,’ game-based learning offers a compelling avenue for fostering a lifelong love for knowledge and exploration. .”

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

Designing the game world's creatures. As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. My personal solution was to program my own shape generator, based on values from the terrain generator. Shape generation tool.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This process was inspired by a Picasso quote, where here states that: The Importance of Play & Experimentation When Designing Environments. Now in the world of indie game design, I find it beneficial to take a similar approach. Want to Make Video Games? Do you love game design? This will help a bit.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It takes good parts of other good games, and skilled talented people spent lots of time and money on it. But if you're already familiar with all the game design deities invoked here, there probably aren't enough design risks nor genuinely subversive ideas. The cult of the game industry is most powerful of all.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

The following is an excerpt from the Designer Notes for Old World. The game, a historical 4X set in classical antiquity, released on July 1, 2021, and is available for purchase here. The first Civilization game was like a game design thunderbolt, sent from the heavens and marking everything it touched.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 18, 2023

At some point in the last several decades of video games, everything became a role-playing game. Turns out, if your game design is a little lacking, all you need to do is spackle on a bit of "Make bars fill up to make numbers get bigger to make bars fill up." Restrictive terrain. Unexpected hordes. Minibosses.

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Grid Sage Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Despite its relatively small item pool and low emphasis on random variants, Brogue has an even greater emphasis on terrain factors that really help support the dynamic gameplay in a way that keeps repeated runs interesting. Brogue’s trippy colors come from impactful terrain features like water, lava, and gases.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In a game setting, though, this can be quite an annoyance from a design perspective (harder to balance!) and is likely to either become a player crutch or lead to tedious optimal play (a topic I covered in my game design philosophy article ). Architecture. But we can sorta do something about that if we want to!

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

This is a pretty good example of the heavy influence interface limitations can have on game design. Kinetic projectiles also light up targets (including terrain) due to the impacts, and at the start of this battle you can see two mechanical machines fall silent after being disabled. Trap Extractor demo.

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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.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Deep games require knowledge, explanation, creativity, and cleverness. Such a model could also inform our discussions about game design, suggesting directions for design exploration and expanding our palette of analytical tools and techniques. Modeling depth may help us better understand how to think about these things.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Visual scripting is ideal for non-programmers, or for programmers exposing behaviors to game designers, artists, etc. This new implementation is based on Tiled Editor 's Terrains and is fully compatible with previous TileSets. to the canvas, greatly improving usability. Auto-tiling in tile maps.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Fortunately, the art design of the game performs well. The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance. The static lighting and shadow rendering are excellent. The grand scene).

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia. Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles.

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