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 …
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 …
I wrote a piece on my experience at Practice 2015 this past weekend. Check it out over at Gamasutra.
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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