Game Developer

JULY 9, 2024

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts.'

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Game Errors

JANUARY 31, 2023

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 is available on Steam and it seems that the game encounters a lot of errors. In this 2018 version, Car Mechanic Simulator seems to be poorly optimized and players reported launching issues, black screen, crashes, low frame rates, drops of fps, and freezes.

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Game Developer

MAY 2, 2023

Copychaser Games founder Ben Gelinas discusses how reporting is so vital to Times & Galaxy and how it changes games' relationship with people and investigation.

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Game Developer

JUNE 6, 2023

Immortality game director Sam Barlow discusses his inspirations for making games around "witnessing" key events.

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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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Juego Studio

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When looking at these games one could not help but wonder “How are video racing more enjoyable and realistic at the same time?” […] The post Racing Game Mechanics – A Detailed Guide appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 2, 2023

The progression mechanic is based on watching ads, with each ad increasing the number of rewards for the next pull. Purposeful game mechanisms built around ads are a genius way to increase CTR rates and create a positive user experience that adds to retention. Dragonscapes Adventure’s floating reward prompt.

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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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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 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

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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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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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

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 205

Game Developer

JULY 17, 2024

LocalThunk breaks down the various ways players are guided to understand and internalize the deckbuilder's card mechanics.

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Mechanics 295

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

JULY 15, 2024

The beta for Firewalk Games' Concord shows off a surprisingly rich deckbuilding-inspired game mechanic.

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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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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

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 217

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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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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

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Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

The developers at Humble Reeds talk about how they wove conservationism into the game's mechanics without bogging the them down in the complexities of environmental care.

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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

APRIL 19, 2024

To understand the impact of your mechanics, you need to know how people will react to them. This means that you have to have some kind of mental model of player behavior. The question is, in your model, how much rationality do you assume?

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Mechanics 306

Game Developer

JANUARY 31, 2024

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has a simple-but-brilliant mechanic to help players remember hidden locations on the game's massive map.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We had a lot of fun making this game, with a clear scope and framework to start from, and a lot of room for iteration both mechanically and in adding secrets and surprises.

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Game Developer

MARCH 21, 2024

Phil Crifo talks about the desire and utility of setting a game in their homeland of New Caledonia, as well as how that would shape its mechanics and play.

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Mechanics Games 290

Game Developer

MAY 13, 2024

'Once we'd settled on using words for everything, the ideas for mechanics just kept coming.'

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Mechanics 241

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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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 348

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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

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Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2024

There is no need to implement mechanics and parameters that are not capable of creating interesting situations even theoretically.

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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 297

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 297

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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