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Narek Aghekyan's Blog

 
  • Have been a programmer since 2007. In 2013 started to work as a game programmer and fell in love with games and game development. Since then have been working as a professional game developer.
  • Recent years have shifted my focus more on game design aspect.
  • Founder and CEO of Noor Games - game development company based in Armenia since 2015.
  • Theoretical Physicist, PhD (study of physical properties of semiconductor quantum nanostructures)
 

Member Blogs

Replayable Games - Game Mechanics As Periodic Dilemma Generators (PDG)
Posted by Narek Aghekyan on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:49:00 EST in Design, Design, Design, Console/PC, Serious, Indie, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, VR
How to make high replay value games? What is a PDG? How to design PDG in a game? Human perception of PDG system. Examples of PDGs in established game genres.

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The mighty MMM concept in hyper-casual game design
Posted by Narek Aghekyan on Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:36:00 EST in Design, Design, Design, Console/PC, Serious, Indie, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, VR
This article discusses an approach to make more interesting and pleasurable hyper-casual games. The aim is to achieve both higher retention rates and lower CPI numbers for hyper-casual games.

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7 Must-read Books for Game Designers
Posted by Narek Aghekyan on Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:33:00 EDT in Design, Design, Design, Console/PC, Serious, Indie, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, VR
This article discusses when and how game design has become a profession as well as when it has formed enough to be considered as a separate discipline. Also it suggests 7 books that every game designer needs to read.

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Narek Aghekyan's Comments

Comment In:
The mighty MMM concept in hyper-casual game design
[Blog - 12/17/2019 - 01:36]

Thanks for reading and commenting, ...

Thanks for reading and commenting, Ignat :

Comment In:
The Game Outcomes Project, Part 2: Building Effective Teams
[Blog - 01/06/2015 - 01:35]

Again, thank you for sharing ...

Again, thank you for sharing that findings. Related to point 10 - I Have a Best Friend at Work, as much as I understand Gallup collected data from 10 million employee and manager interviews. On the contrary the represented data is based on 300 companies survey. Shouldn 't 10M survey ...

Comment In:
The Game Outcomes Project, Part 1: The Best and the Rest
[Blog - 12/16/2014 - 03:05]

I have come here from ...

I have come here from reading Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach r nby Michael Sellers. Thank you very much for this investigation and for the blogposts. r n r nI am not a statistician, but I find something strange that there is no correlation about production processes. Here is ...

Comment In:
7 Must-read Books for Game Designers
[Blog - 08/12/2019 - 11:33]

One kind man has translated ...

One kind man has translated my article into Russian and posted it on habr.com so if you are more fluent in Russian read this one: https://habr.com/ru/post/463805/