Raph Koster

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It was a literal description of digital data, which is effectively an infinite resource. They are all about turning an infinite resource back into something scarce, recreating a non-digital world. And that’s a whole family of topics for another day. Oh, and everything about crypto. Most people don’t even know what ownership is.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I had been running a studio for half a decade before I learned the term emotional intelligence, and even now -a decade later- researching, studying, and getting guidance on the topic teaches me new, more effective, and more honest ways of looking at myself, my leadership, and my creative practice.

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Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Despite its complex characters and topics pushing against the confines of video game culture, there are still many compromises for the video game format. If level designers divert the player, or humans divert the river, then you have no choice, even though you are alive. Actors often hold up objects awkwardly so you can click on them.

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iHobo

JUNE 8, 2022

That's because human places - villages, towns, cities - are about the people that live there, whereas videogame places - inns and shops, dungeons and secret bases - are about the loot the player can steal and the advantages the player can eke out of them.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

In the next few chapters, we’ll visit these topics one by one. Therefore, games like Cookie Run: Kingdom were able to tap into the abundant Tween Animation talent and resource pool within South Korea built from cartoon productions and outsourcing projects. Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The podcast unfolds an engaging conversation that delves into the challenges aspiring entrepreneurs face, the distinguishing traits of successful founders, and the timeless topic of work-life balance. Fragmented efforts within the team can easily lead to distractions and hinder progress by scattering resources.

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Game Design Advice

APRIL 22, 2016

First of all, AlphaGo is, in many ways, the most human human – it’s a human project developed by a bunch of people with human values not least of which is a genuine fascination with and appreciation of Go. Don’t call me Gaius Baltar, remember I was betting on humans, not against them.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

Here is a video of the brief introduction to this topic that I gave at Banff. What follows is an overview of where our thinking is on this topic. We aren’t primarily interested in how humans learn or what humans find interesting. The human brain itself may demonstrate a similar structure.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

A cold calculating trader would only care about the outcome, but human beings seem to love watching the outcome unfold - a puzzling topic for economists. In games like Albion Online or DeFi Kingdoms, a huge component of the game is resource management outside of the market. The reveal itself can be engrossing.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 26, 2017

We could cover a whole series of articles just on the topic of proper and productive play-testing. This pushes the boundaries of what you can handle, resource-wise. Telling stories is one of the most essentially human instincts. How do we play-test our board games to make sure our stories and our gameplay match each other?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Our built-in docs are more complete and of much better quality than ever, and our online docs now cover many new topics in depth (such as 3D features). Changes to resources can also be merged. Contributors are working on a human-readable changelog which should give you some more details. Godot now supports importing glTF 2.0

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Instead, the Puzzle genre is more suitable for standard user acquisition, a topic where likely Supercell is less experienced than specialized companies. But the content creator audiences likely weren’t very receptive to Clash Quest , which is not as fun to watch due to the lack of PvP and has way less mastery depth.

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Game Designing

JULY 18, 2023

We also discuss its uses, advantages, and drawbacks as well as share a list of tools and resources you can use to create breathtaking AI art. AI art disrupts the paradigm of human creativity and handheld tools like paintbrushes and musical instruments that have driven art’s history since the discovery of the earliest pictures on cave walls.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 1, 2023

As AI technology continues to improve, it could enable smaller studios and independent developers to create high-quality content without the need for large teams or expensive resources. Chaumette expressed his enthusiasm for this possibility, noting that “AI is going to help smaller teams to create better games with fewer resources.

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