Game Design

“do” and “eat” and “have” and I found that it’s bigger. Because that word is a semantic imperialist, it just goes everywhere. It ...

As to whether the user will ever be satisfied with the finite number of options he’s given, I don’t see a problem there at all. ...

it claims to be — a simulation, not a drama. No drama simulates the real world. In Shakespeare’s play, in the middle of Henry V’ ...

continue to get more polygons in the faces and have them dance better and so forth. But in terms of dramatic resolution, they ha ...

So what’s next for the Erasmatron technology? Well, the basic technology is, I feel, ready to go commercially right now. We stil ...

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never make it beyond the script stage or, once completed, may not get released as origi- nally intended. But, overall, Hollywood ...

gameplay, even if it is only a variation on a proven theme, all hope of predictability in its development is thrown to the four ...

that may turn out to be incorrect once the gameplay is actually functional. If a designer builds an elaborate game design on pri ...

However, it did mean that by the time I had the money to hire artists to finish the pro- ject, all of the game’s design was done ...

team working on your project from the very beginning, and those people need to be kept busy making art, building levels, or codi ...

your design to accommodate this restriction. It should be no surprise that the best-designed games are often ones that did not u ...

basic navigation of the world. Work on this movement until it feels pretty good, until you find yourself enjoying playing the ga ...

One example of this is from the development of my gameDamage Incorporated. The very first level I created for the single-player ...

for level designers to edit and constantly pushed the limits of our technology. It was also one of the more complex levels in th ...

ignored the pleadings of coworkers and friends when they said something needed to be reworked or changed. I was reluctant to thr ...

implementation than what the designer had in mind. As a result, either the game is weaker or the designer must go back to the pr ...

coding on the games you ship. Indeed, I originally pursued programming because I wanted to design computer games. It is beyond t ...

a designer who is not actively working on the game during that period can truly be con- sidered to have designed it. If this so- ...

content new and interesting. Now that you know that your game design is a good one, it may finally make sense to craft a thoroug ...