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There are a few philosophical positions on game development that are, I would say, "anti-design". In this short series, I will go through a few of them. We'll begin with an article about what I call "the quantity design philosophy".
Game designer, author and Gamasutra contributor Keith Burgun explains his very specific criteria, and weighs in on his favorite games from 2013.
The way we think about concepts like "winning" and "losing" in the world of single player digital games tends to be a bit strange. What do these terms really mean, and why is it important?
Asymmetrical forces have always been a dominant design pattern for videogames. In this article, I ask why that is, and suggest that we may actually be better off shooting for symmetrical designs.
Independent game developers have been exhibiting a pattern of not supporting their games, and it's a massive lost opportunity for developers, the community, and gaming in general.
EMPIRE is an upcoming 4X Strategy / Deck-building mobile game designed by Keith Burgun, who designed the iOS game 100 Rogues and the upcoming AURO. With the game currently in beta, Keith writes about some of the challenges ahead for the game.
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[Blog - 07/02/2014 - 08:39]
I like that the first ...
I like that the first example of a game with a lot of clones here is 2048, which is ITSELF a clone of Threes.
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If someone makes a game ...
If someone makes a game that is overall basically the same game as Fruit Ninja, but it 's significantly worse, that thing has no value. Even if it has one or two merits in there, really, we already have Fruit Ninja, so this new less good Fruit Ninja is really ...
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Why do people argue about ...
Why do people argue about whether something is a INSERT WORD HERE but avoid providing a definition for that word I see a lot of debates like this... and it 's like, OBVIOUSLY the answer is contingent on how you are defining the word game . The whole reason there ...
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How is that troubling It 's high time people stopped spending hundreds of millions of dollars on games. Focus on good gameplay, good ideas. With a team of 15 - or even half that, for that matter, you can make the greatest games the world has ever seen, if you ...
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It 's a 2D game, ...
It 's a 2D game, and -- like Lemmings or Tetris -- would not be improved by making it 3D. r n r nImagine that, a game that isn 't improved by making it 3D Why is the assumption here that 3D improves games again
