I have long considered execution to be basically a form of randomness, similar to dice rolls or card draws. I have also long recognized that not everyone agrees with me, and some people find the idea deeply offensive. I can understand both of these responses, but today I would like to address them directly and […]
Execution in strategy games should be considered “randomness” 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
3 Minute Game Design SEASON 2 has begun! Read More »
I’ve been playing a lot more videogames recently. Over the past ten years, I developed a very specific set of criteria and tastes that made up a paradigm of game design. All of this lead me to search within an extremely narrow (and increasingly narrow over time) space for new games to play—Eurogames in particular,
Four design lessons which were really obvious to everyone but me Read More »
Today I’d like to spend a little time talking about the game design of Push the Lane, a game that I’m working on (and currently Kickstarting.) If you aren’t up on the basics of what Push the Lane is, check out the Kickstarter page, or this page here on my site. A really great indie
Fog of War in Push the Lane (and strategy games, generally) 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 »
Hello everyone. Today I’m talking about a new article I read about permadeath/grinding, as well as what I perceive as the death, or at least curving off of, the world of game design writing. I also read and responded to a Frank Lantz quote (now on the Dinofarm Forums!) on the topic of structure in
CGD Podcast Ep. 31 – permadeath, structure, the death of game design writing, and more Read More »
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