Tag: game design
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Levels in Disguise
There are no spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree in this article. So… ELDEN RING: Shadow of the Erdtree is finally out, bringing with it a truly titanic wave of game design discourse. For two weeks, it has been crashing down upon every social media platform that I inhabit – which is unfortunate, given that…
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Anti-User Interface
Building a user interface designed to kill my users.
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May Mileage May Vary
May is the prelude to everything else in my year.
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I Like Big Lasers
And someone will fry.
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The Juggling Act
Sometimes, you really only find the spirit of your game through actually building it. In Doorways 9’s case, building out levels has made me realize that I’m not really working on a puzzle game, in the sense I thought I was when I started. I’m making a spite simulator.
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Card Souls: An Essay on Mechanical Flavor
This is not the Dark Souls of card games. But it feels like it.
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Tasks & Temptations
I really gotta stop trying to put dates on things.
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Welcome Back, Gamedevs
I see you there. All of you. Hello.
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Rollover: An Unnecessary Micro-Thesis on Dice-Rolling
QA-Inspired thoughts on dice, RPGs, and the ways that stats work.
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This is not a visual novel.
If it walks like a visual novel, and talks like a visual novel… it’s not. I swear.
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