Hello everyone and welcome to the 91st episode of the CLOCKWORK GAME DESIGN PODCAST! Today’s guest is Dan Felder, a game designer who has worked at several studios, including EA, Blizzard, and Abrakam Games, where he worked on the popular CCG, Faeria. He also has written a bunch of game design articles on game balance, …
Free-to-play, Gacha games and game design discourse with Dan Felder Read More »
Here’s the complete list of all my games, ranked BEST to WORST – with helpful links if you wanna go check them out! UPDATE: people asked me to say a few words about each game and why it is where it is on the list. I’m going to skip 1-3 because I feel very positively …
Over the years, I’ve had some trouble expressing my point of view about pre-game asymmetric choices (characters, factions, etc) in games. Back in 2013 I wrote “Debunking Asymmetry“, which was my most clumsy attempt, and which awarded me over 100 comments, from notable game designers like Naomi Clark, Raph Koster, Greg Costikyan, Jon Schafer and …
Okay, I have two objectives here: 1). To talk about the effects of longer arcs, both in storytelling and in game design, and 2). To talk about what an amazing show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is. Actually, this was the main thing, really. But I did connect some stuff that I observed from this show into a …
Larger-arc contextualization, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Read More »
Alexander King, who teaches at the NYU Game Center and the Parsons School of Design, has been tweeting about math for game designers a bunch – you should definitely go check out his tweet thread on the topic here. It also got me interested to have him on the show – I don’t think we’ve …
This patch note list is a lot bigger, really, than it appears – like the second bullet point about improvement to UI elements, there could be 20 bullet points in there. Overall it’s a huge patch with a ton of improvements to the game, but of course the biggest thing is the introduction of the …
GWT 1.25 patch notes – The Neverending Party and more! Read More »
