Looking at a game once it’s done, the goal structure often feels obvious, but it’s usually one of the more flexible parts of a game design. Don’t lock your goals in too early - experiment! #gaming #gamedesign #minimetro

Shoot. Twisted Pixel was started by old buddies of mine. Sad to see it go. I miss Maw.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Looking for new game ideas? Find a game you love and see if there’s a way to slice off just a piece of it and make a game just about that. #gaming #gamedesign #minimetro

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Understanding how a new player is going to become a master is important. Game designers need to design that pathway or else you’re depending on luck to make a key experience happen. #gaming #gamedesign #kirbyairriders

Looking to have a big success? Find a genre that’s been playing it safe and take some risks. Borrow risks from other genres. It doesn’t always work, but it’s a better path to success than copying the market leader. #gaming #gamedesign #kirbyairriders

There are lots of genres of games, like racing, that I scoffed at when I was young but grew to love once I took a deeper look at them. (And no, I’m not saying that Kirby Air Riders is a deeply strategic racing game, just that learnings from one inform the other.) #gaming #gamedesign #kirbyairriders

Managing the flow of information to the player can be as important as the information itself. #gaming #gamedesign #kirbyairriders

Part of a game’s vision is defining what is going to stay the same while other things change to create variety. #gaming #gamedesign #kirbyairriders

Boycott Corporations that buy Oil from Venezuala

Captain America in an August 1990 in issue, after the last time the US violated international law to invade a Latin American nation and kidnap a head of state to stand trial on drug charges

Impeach, convict, remove.

I've been thinking a lot about genre lately, and about mapping out "genre landscapes" like the emerging movement of knowledge-driven games. azhdarchid.com/against-metr...

I like how interactivity makes me feel, even when I know it doesn’t actually change anything. #gaming #1000xresist

I’ve been wondering recently if games need to worry about replay as much as they often do. Having enough variety to sustain the player a while is good, but the cost is high and the return diminishes quickly. #gaming #1000xresist

Is narrative uncertainty enough to make a game work? I suppose if Animal Crossing’s minimal uncertainty and/or challenge counts, then a story game like this is also fine. #gaming #1000xresist

Dipping my toes into The Narrative Design Dad territory here, but that’s also good honest work. #gaming #1000xresist

Do you prefer your gameplay literal or figurative? #gaming #1000xresist

Some of the most important tools in a game designer’s toolbox are ways to solidify ideas in a player’s head without the need to directly state those things. #slay #gaming

Oh yeah, get this one.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Simple doesn’t have to mean simplistic. #slay #gaming

Good game design involves creating systems that give players choices that play out differently in different play sessions and don’t have fixed consistent answers. #slay #gaming

Good game design involves creating systems that naturally lead players to goals that are interesting and add depth to play. #slay #gaming

Understanding the verbs in a game depends on the context and perspective. There are lots of ways to see things; find the way that is helpful to you. #slay #gaming

Hear me out: a Katamari game where the levels are based on other video games. You could roll up nurses in Silent Hill, demolish a frontier town in Red Dead Redemption, make a ball of Baldur’s Gate etc

That… seems pretty worth paying attention to.

Interesting list, would love to see the demographics of the participants.

Playtesting is a great way to gauge your cognitive load choke points. #gaming #gamedesign

Designing level progression is about deciding how to pace comfort and surprise and learning. #gaming #gamedesign

Today’s video is about systems. Systems are the best. #gaming #gamedesign

Making little people happy is one of the pillars of gaming. #gaming #gamedesign

Design space is a key concept that is hard to precisely define. #gaming #gamedesign

My favourite thing I heard of like this is a debugging feature in Alien Isolation where instead of hissing the Alien states aloud what it's thinking about. "I heard you. I am hunting you. I am hunting you. I am hunting you. I have found you."

if you create two portals in Rhell and then make one portal a different size than the other, then walking through them will warp the players size to match the different in the portals sizes #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly

Gameplay mechanics are my jam, but business mechanics can also be interesting. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

If you’re not sure how to make a feature more appealing to a player, give them more stuff. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

It’s nice to see that there are still new twitch skills to be discovered. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

Remind me to write my blog post about "games built around themes" versus "games built around mechanics" versus "games built around market considerations" sometime

Explaining what a player should want is like explaining a joke - it ruins the impact. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

Games that focus on a small set of verbs are easier to develop, but it puts pressure on those verbs to do a lot more. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

The older I get, the more I believe that the games industry can be boiled down to “number go up” and “make friend”. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

Bigger numbers and shinier graphics are what players want, even when players know they don’t really matter. It’s weird, but it works. Progress Quest is the one that really drove this home for me. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

Classic game-dev moment: Spent 3h trying to make something very cool (Procedural Pixel Fake Shadows) , taking Unreal apart to make it work, only to my old simple solution (just a pixel circle shadow for everything) to actually look/work/read better 🤡 #gamedev

Exciting news! Spry Fox is great!

Uncertainty is more important than actual challenge. #roblox #gaming #gamedesign

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