by Rico Schmidt | Mar 19, 2021 | GAME DESIGN
In the first part of this three-part series, we talked about “level creation cycles” and outlined a six-phase approach for building them. We discussed concepting, internal testing and feedback loops. We talked about usability testing and balancing, and explored the...
by Dave Rohrl | Feb 4, 2021 | GAME DESIGN, OTHER
This may surprise you, but game design is more than analysis and number crunching. It requires a large element of creativity, and often the best kind of creativity comes from groups rather than individual designers. This means that, often, teams need to engage in some...
by David Nixon | Jan 25, 2021 | GAME DESIGN, OTHER
It is difficult to overstate the importance of retention to succeeding with a free-to-play game. After all, if players don’t stick around, they don’t watch ads, they don’t buy currency, and they don’t consume all that lovely, expensive game...
by Ed Kuehnel | Dec 17, 2020 | GAME DESIGN
Part 3 – Writing the Walkthrough & Dialog Overview This is the third entry in a three-part blog post on narrative design in which we illustrate a process for integrating story and gameplay that has been used by game developers since the days of early graphic...
by Dave Rohrl | Dec 15, 2019 | GAME DESIGN
As a game design consultant, I work with a wide variety of developers on a huge range of projects. I deal with large companies and small, casual games and hardcore, and designers ranging from utter newbies to industry vets. I’ve designed...
by Dave Rohrl | Nov 20, 2019 | GAME DESIGN, STRATEGY
A product manager at King recently published this brilliant article about some research they did to help them understand the audience for various game genres better. In essence, they laid out the top 100 grossing mobile games, coded them for genre, and...
