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This is an opinion piece. After researching and indulging myself in the space for some months, these opinions reflect my ...
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A new genre of game is on the rise for some time now: "Merge Games". Are merge games just a ...
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Hay Day Pop is Supercell's latest game which is currently in soft launch. Supercell is known for their innovation that ...
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In this article, I want to outline how you can give your game a boost by letting players own their ...
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Rewards are at the heart of games. They come in many flavors.   When balancing economic rewards such as Currencies, ...
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Many professional game developers maintain personal projects as a creative outlet. The day to day work can be very restrictive ...
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Learning from Games As designers, we can learn from every game. So naturally, whenever I play a game, I play ...
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“Cooking Fever” is a currently very successful casual game climbing the ranks in the respective App-Stores. I argue that this ...
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When players or even designers are asked whether they like tutorials or not, many of them will reply with a ...
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Two weeks ago something unusual happened to my gamer alter-ego. I got hooked on a game. The first time in ...
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In my previous post: “The Game Design Rabbit Hole” I have conducted my struggles with game design and it being ...
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The process of designing “fun” has always been and is still is an undefined matter for me. All the books, ...
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Goal The purpose of this blog is to document game systems and insights into the balancing of games as I ...
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Session Pacing In my previous post about the progression mechanics in Sim City BuildIt I argued that shaping the players ...
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Introduction I took a close look at the balancing of the successful mobile free to play game “Sim City BuildIt” ...
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