I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the last few years about short arcs and long arcs in strategy game design. “Short arcs” would be referring to local, short term operations – so in a tactical game, this might mean “defeating THIS unit” or “making sure that unit doesn’t reach this area”, etc. Longer …
Hi everyone. I thought I’d post the patch notes for the new version of GEM WIZARDS TACTICS which just went out to my Patrons. Here’s some of what you’re missing! Version 0.05 – Rate of fire spread decreased slightly – Fire duration reduced to 4 – New tile type: Scorch. Created when a fire dies. …
Episode 2 of my new series is up! Check it out!
Hey everyone! I have a new video series called Game Design Theory + Practice, starting today. The first episode is pretty light on theory, but introduces the video series and my upcoming game, Business Demon Tactics. Enjoy!
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 …
A few years ago, I wrote an article about randomness in games. It was far from my first time taking a stab at the subject, but it is the most recent big, singular effort at describing the relationship between randomness and game design, as I see it. In this article, I’m going to talk a …
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