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Why we play video games
Posted by Jonathan Bailey on Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:30:00 EDT in Design, Console/PC, Indie, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet
In this article, I break down 5 reasons why people play video games.

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Word Game Mechanics
Posted by Jonathan Bailey on Thu, 07 May 2015 02:30:00 EDT in Design, Indie, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet
Several weeks ago we began building a word game tool. We played and analyzed many word games to deconstruct their mechanics. In this article we share our findings.

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Match Game Mechanics: An exhaustive survey
Posted by Jonathan Bailey on Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:08:00 EST in Design, Indie
Several weeks ago we began building a match game tool. We played and analyzed many match games to deconstruct their mechanics. In this article we share our findings.

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Unexpected twists and turns: 1 year young
Posted by Jonathan Bailey on Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:17:00 EDT in Business/Marketing
Gamelogic is a year old! This seems like an appropriate time for a bit of reflection and to share some personal insight into getting our game development tool business off the ground.

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How we made 30 games in 30 days
Posted by Jonathan Bailey on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 03:11:00 EST in Business/Marketing, Production, Indie
In November 2013 we made a game a day with our Grids plugin for Unity Game Engine. Not only did we want to experiment with rapid prototyping, we also wanted to prove that Grids helps people to make game fast. Here is how we did it.

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[Blog - 05/07/2015 - 02:30]

Thanks for the feedback Benjamin. ...

Thanks for the feedback Benjamin. Phrazzle is indeed a cool game. Like @Steven Stadnicki accurately pointed out it doesn t fall within the constraints that we set, but if we were to broaden our scope to include games like Phrazzle, it would open the door to a lot of cool ...

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Match Game Mechanics: An exhaustive survey
[Blog - 02/27/2015 - 03:08]

Thanks Christopher, I 've added ...

Thanks Christopher, I 've added it to our update section at the bottom of the article. Later we 'll integrate all the addtions into the scheme. r n r nIt 's a cool mechanic we actually saw something similar in Brainsquare https://www.youtube.com/watch v eu5bAQ50yuY , but it didn 't fall ...

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How we made 30 games in 30 days
[Blog - 12/06/2013 - 03:11]

Thanks very much @SleeveSmith and ...

Thanks very much @SleeveSmith and @MattBoudreaux r n r [email protected], we have had about 2500 plays with the number of plays varying considerably between games. The most played game has been played about 500 times, but some games only got a handful of plays. Earlier released games tend to have ...