game development

CGD Podcast Episode #19: The Process, and Designing Games Like Applications

In this episode I talk about my process of five major stages in game design. I also talk about how game design is not a guaranteed thing. We tend to think of game design in terms of “designing lots of games”, sort of “churning them out”, when in fact, we should be thinking of it …

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The Virtuosity Scale

One thing to think about when designing a game is trying to figure out what “degree of virtuosity” you want to allow. I mean this in a bit of a prescriptive way, which I’ll explain. Some games offer you a huge number of possible choices per “turn” or per “moment”. Having a high degree of …

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