To this: Are you taking social games and trying to inject them with core aspects, or are you taking core games and trying to inject them with social aspects Neither. I think neither of those actually work, There's a lot of social games for a core audience which are just ...
We all aspire to be cops or doctors or superheroes or murderers, not washed up writers on vacation with writer's block ... I never aspired to be anything beyond a good player when it comes to games. I'm also to blame for bias against GTA and it's clones just because ...
By the 50th time I had to cross some woods route with 30 instances of the same enemy I've been fighting the entire game, I knew I had seen everything there was in the game... Alan Wake and maybe every horror game would benefit a lot from being shorter. Different ...
So what do you mean when if you describe a game, or part of a game, as 'elegant' A design is a solution for a given set of problems. An elegant solution is one that solves as many problems as possible, in the simplest way possible, without creating new ones.
I confess, I was 9 years old when I saw Monopoly at a friend's house and then built a clone of it when I got home to play with my brothers, and it wasn't the last tabletop game I cloned this manner. Two years later, I drew some maps, monsters ...
This discussion is getting quite interesting... More than fixing wrong assumptions and labels, having clear bounds of where every region think of a graphical top-down map representation sits and how they can interconnect, overlap or contain seeds of each other, is greatly useful for identifying where there's uncovered ground. By ...
