I write a lot about how bad output randomness is for games, but today I want to write about a problem common in many deterministic games – specifically ones that lack hidden information. Why doesn’t everyone just play chess, if it’s so great? The answer is that chess, or other ancient abstracts like Go and […]
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Here’s another episode of 3 Minute Game Design! This one deals with the ideas of elegance and depth in game design. As a side note, I’ve also begun cleaning up some of my older articles. To support the creation of these videos and the maintenance of this site, please support me on Patreon at
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Here’s Episode 3: How Games Work. I’ve also written a new article for Gamasutra covering my experience at Practice 2014.
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Somehow I was able to put everything off for a couple of days and churn out this second episode of my new game design video series, 3 Minute Game Design. Let me know what you think.
3 Minute Game Design – Episode 2: The Forms Read More »
I’ve started a new video series called 3 Minute Game Design. I created a YouTube channel for it, and have posted the first entry in the series. Episode 1 discusses some fundamental ideas like prescriptive language and the very idea that we can prescribe guidelines for better game design. If you like this video series
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For the last year or so, I’ve been working hard on a book called Clockwork Game Design. It details a clear, useful design pattern for building elegant strategy games. How does it differ from my first book, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games? Game Design Theory was very broad. It talks about
Clockwork Game Design is now available for pre-order! Read More »
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