A few months ago, I posted a thread on /r/gamedesign about how we should make 2017 a year with more game design blogging. Since then, a few Dinofarm Forums members have talked about starting up a game design writing career (or re-starting one). The last few days have had a huge uptick in interesting, quality […]
Game Design Digest, from the Dinofarm Forums Read More »
For the past five years or so, I’ve been talking about the input/output randomness concepts, and why they’re so important for game design. While I wasn’t the one who coined the terms—that honor goes to the great fellows at the Ludology Podcast—some Googling around shows that no one has talked about the concepts, or developed
Riot is thinking about input/output randomness in League of Legends Read More »
I have described the four essential “forms” of interactive entertainment, based on four distinct values that these four types of play produce. You can get a more in-depth introduction on these forms by reading this, but I’ll quickly break it down here. First, you start off with a “bare interactive system” – this is an
Contests Explained Read More »
I wrote a piece on my experience at Practice 2015 this past weekend. Check it out over at Gamasutra.
Missed Opportunities at NYU’s Practice 2015 (Gamasutra) Read More »
Episode 2, already!? Yep! I spent essentially all day one day recording both of these episodes, because I wanted to really get the ball rolling. It’s kind of annoying to have just one episode of a podcast, I feel like. Today’s episode deals with the distractions and other obstacles that have slowed our growth in the
Clockwork Game Design Podcast – Episode 2: Distractions Read More »
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