Hey everyone! Today I have an interview with Daniel Moore – a joint podcast episode with his podcast, This Podcast Could Take Forever. I didn’t know about his show, but he was a listener and he reached out and mentioned that since we both have backgrounds in games and music theory, we should have this …
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Hey everyone. For the last nine months or so I’ve been working on a game called Chess Mix. I haven’t written a formal thing about it here on the website, so here’s that formal thing! What is it? Chess Mix is a turn based tactical strategy game. You move units around the board, which move …
I wanted to write a few words about difficulty in games. First, the word “difficulty” doesn’t really apply to the kinds of things I want to make: strategy games. Or at least, it shouldn’t. Any good multiplayer online strategy game will have a matchmaking system, which does the very best it can at providing a …
Hi! Thanks for listening. Here’s what I talk about on this week’s show. Updates about Chess Mix, revamping my Patreon, thinking more about article writing vs. video-making, some games I’ve been playing, and more A section about League of Legends and why you should probably play it, or at the least have a lot of …
CGD Podcast: Updates, League of Legends, and being a solo coder/designer Read More »
Hey everyone! Awesome news! It’s been an intense few weeks since I started working on this. It’s been a ton of work, but I’m pretty happy with how stuff is coming together. I’ve written and produced two videos for Season 2 of the 3 Minute Game Design YouTube series. The first one is kind of …
Hi! Welcome to episode 53 of the Clockwork Game Design Podcast! This is the second of “season 2” of the podcast – it’s another hour plus episode chock full of cool features. First we talk about the whole “a series of interesting decisions” concept, which Sid Meier is well known for(here‘s his GDC 2012 talk …
“Decisions”, XCom’s “creeping problem”, and paper prototyping Read More »
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