Empowering Session Design of “Junes Journey”
In this article, I want to outline how you can give your game a boost by letting players own their sessions. As an example, I will use mechanics and systems
Less is more: 4 reasons to keep your rewards scarce
Rewards are at the heart of games. They come in many flavors. When balancing economic rewards such as Currencies, XP, Items and other quantifiable things, we often face a…
Game Design Analysis: The Promised Land
Learning from Games As designers, we can learn from every game. So naturally, whenever I play a game, I play them as a player but also as a designer. To…
Tutorials
When players or even designers are asked whether they like tutorials or not, many of them will reply with a clear “no”. The reason is that so many games have…
The Design of Rocket League
Two weeks ago something unusual happened to my gamer alter-ego. I got hooked on a game. The first time in a long time. Many other poor souls seem to have…
The Heart of Game Systems
In my previous post: “The Game Design Rabbit Hole” I have conducted my struggles with game design and it being not as a solid craft as I wish it was.…
Rabbit Hole: Game Design
The process of designing “fun” has always been and is still is an undefined matter for me. All the books, all the articles, all the thoughts expressed on how we…
The Mechanics of “Halfway”
Goal The purpose of this blog is to document game systems and insights into the balancing of games as I encounter them in games. I hope that writing about these things…