Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Nearly a week after the launch of Runescape's Hero Pass, Jagex is stripping it of pay-to-win elements heavily criticized by the player community.

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Mechanics 198

Game Developer

APRIL 7, 2023

Environmental strategy game Terra Nil needed to do what no other citybuilding game had done before to cross the finish line.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

Most board game mechanics will not work as well as you intend them to. Good board game developers need to know when to drop mechanics and when to refine them. I’ve been playing with a new mechanic called “traffic.” Yes, I thought this would make a good mechanic a week ago. Click here. So it goes.

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Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2023

For anyone with an interest in game design, Polaris' developer summit has different articles covering various aspects of design development.

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Game Wisdom

MAY 28, 2023

Most Innovative Game Mechanics of the 21st Century Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com The 21st century has brought about impressive advancements in video game technology, leading to the emergence of innovative gameplay mechanics.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 22, 2023

Mimimi Games needed a touch of magic to make save scumming feel like a natural part of gameplay.

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Mechanics Games 246

Brand Game Development

APRIL 28, 2017

Core Engine: If you strip out all the mechanics that put obstacles in your players’ path, what’s left? The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics you need to have a functioning game. Mechanics: Games are not very good until you have constraints that make it hard for players to achieve the objective.

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Unity Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Half Mermaid’s Sam Barlow, creator of Telling Lies and Her Story , shares how his team created the match cut mechanic for their latest award-winning video-based game, IMMORTALITY.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

“Theme-first or mechanics-first” might be the most asked “big question” in the board game community. Theme and mechanics are inseparable parts of board games as a whole. When people talk about mechanics, they tend to mean to strategy, tactics, and rules. There is no hard-and-fast line that splits mechanics and theme.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The core engine is what’s left when you strip a game of mechanics and obstacles. The core engine is the bare minimum set of mechanics and concepts you need to have a functioning (but not necessarily fun) game. Game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life. What are game mechanics?

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baba is You creator Arvi Teikari explains how they created an absurd spin-off that plunges players into the world of monotonous white collar crime.

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Mechanics 190

Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2023

Obsidian senior area designer Evan Hill took to the stage at GDC 2023 to plot a heist.

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Mechanics Games 246

Game Developer

JUNE 12, 2023

Mortal Kombat series co-creator Ed Boon explains the origins of Mortal Kombat 1's new "Kameo" system.

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Mechanics 207

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

We’re picking up where we left off last week with How to Design the Mechanics of Your Board Game , so read that if you haven’t had the chance yet. Today, we’ll be focusing on testing game mechanics after you design them. A quick recap: game mechanics are how we bring the core engine of a game to life.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Skala allows players to change the size and shape of the world and everything in it, asking them to solve puzzles by stretching and growing things.

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Mechanics Puzzle 198

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

"The player is an agent of chaos. Lock them up."

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Juego Studio

MARCH 16, 2023

The post The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Game Mechanics appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 31, 2023

I Hate You, Please Suffer twists standard turn-based RPG mechanics to tell a punk-rock, anticapitalist tale.

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Mechanics 337

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Game developers weigh in on the "utter perfection" of giant mechanical robots.

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Game Developer

MARCH 1, 2023

Cosmic Crew sees a gunner and mechanic running different controller stations, with the gunner spotting foes and shooting them while the mechanic repairs and loads ammo.

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Co-op Mechanics 262

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 3, 2023

How many times do you need to show a hooky idea or game mechanic in a trailer for people to understand it? The reason it’s good to show something 2-3 times is firstly because if you only show it once, the person watching might miss it entirely and if you never show it again they could be missing out on a key game mechanic.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Studios senior game producer Mari Kyle breaks down the design of Asgard's Wrath 2's "Godscale" mechanic.

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Game Developer

MARCH 31, 2023

Ubisoft Toronto's Brandon Hennessy spoke at GDC 2023 about the narrative work that went into Watch Dogs: Legion , and how the game's Play as Anyone mechanic required changes to the narrative team's pipeline.

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Mechanics Games 280

Game Developer

MARCH 28, 2023

Mácula Interactive breaks down the photography mechanic that will allow players to explore post-revolutionary Mexico as photojournalist Juan Aguirre.

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Mechanics 280

Game Developer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jusant co-creative director Kevin Poupard explains how the team sought to make the title's core climbing mechanic as approachable as possible.

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Mechanics 189

Game Developer

JUNE 20, 2023

Square Enix's 2022 game Chocobo GP has been updated to completely cut out its microtransactions and free-to-play mechanics.

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Mechanics Games 237

Game Developer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Nintendo's filed patents for Tears of the Kingdom's big gameplay mechanics and smaller features like fast travel and Link interacting with in-game objects.

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Mechanics Games Feature 190

Game Developer

JANUARY 12, 2023

"When we set out to make the next installment in the series, we knew we had to nail the economy aspect, making it both believable as a real-world historical model and compelling as a game mechanic."

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Mechanics Games 268

Game Developer

JANUARY 18, 2023

Europe's Parliament plans on regulating loot boxes in video games and ensuring that the controversial mechanic doesn't take advantage of young players.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It From the building mechanics, all the way to the third person character movements. Does it improve the mechanics of the game? We judge each feature based on three criteria.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Typically highlighting a game’s mechanics in their raw form, even before content and visuals receive their final polish. Public demos aim to showcase your game’s mechanics and style to players while also garnering interest in the full game through story introduction. Consider Holstin’s demo as an example.

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Played with Fire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The challenge for VR game developers lies in designing mechanics that are both challenging and appealing to advanced players. Advanced mechanics Standard mechanics are not something that will satisfy this group of players. Their experience needs to be much more in-depth, so the mechanics require a special approach.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While tools have improved dramatically, allowing smaller teams to produce more graphically and mechanically complex games than ever before, producing equivalent experiences to AAA mega-studios is still prohibitively expensive.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. Carlsen’s vision for Cocoon sprang from a fascination with game mechanics. years of development. One day the idea simply popped up”, explains Carlsen.

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2023

Citizen Sleeper sees players trying to survive the complex needs of their mechanical body as a worker on a run-down space station.

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Mechanics 189

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ever since my first design docs from Cogmind pre-alpha, written back in 2013, I always wanted a projectile deflection mechanic. One day several months ago I decided the wait had gone on long enough and this mechanic needed to happen now. Who cares if I didn’t even have a specific use case yet?

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Thinking about those ideas and how I could come up with my own spin or tell my own story with similar mechanics. I prefer the games that create horror through environments, sound and gameplay mechanics. “Well, I truly love playing games and thinking about ideas from my favorite games. I believe in keeping a good work life balance.

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