I have released a portion of the presentation materials from the online seminar event "Level Designer's Matrix," hosted by CG WORLD and held on June 28, 2025 in Japan. Level Designers: The Diplomats of Game Development www.docswell.com/s/my_syumi_g... #GameDesign #GameDev #Blocktober

Target Audience #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

This is Tokyo Game Show 2025! #TGS2025

The Game Designers Award 2025, chaired by Masahiro Sakurai, has been announced! Grand Prize: INDIKA Final Nominees: SCHiM, Speltnael(スペルトナエル) Check out my article featuring predictions for this year's winners and a list of past winners! my-syumi-game.hatenablog.com/entry/2025/0... #GameDesign

What's the real reason games are taking longer to make? #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

The 3 Layers Every Online Multiplayer Game Runs On #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

Hi! We’re making a cut-out houses video game. Paper-tested. Smells like glue. #indiedev #indiegames #cozygames #diy

City 20 has made it among the Finalists as Most Promising Game in the Game Development World Championship 2025 Summer Season! Winners will be announced on September 12th. @gdwc.bsky.social #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Repeat after us: 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀. • Nothing is linear • You often get the texts in disarray • Different UIs, menus, dialog styles mean different contexts • Also no one can translate more than 2-3k words a day without sacrificing quality, proofreading & LQA.

Kyle Balda: Why This Hollywood Director Is Now Making Games, Why Game Dev Is So Hard | Ep. #053 #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

4 years teaching #GameDesign to groups formed by around 10 people, which means more or less 70 to 80 students in total. During those years I only had 3 or 4 female students. And I think 1 or 2 non-binary.

Japanese Militarism | Japanese History | Extra History Complete #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

GODOT VFX - Muzzle Flash Effect Tutorial #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #YouTube #GodotEngine #VFX

'Split Fiction' cleared! More refined challenges and narrative than Josef Fares' previous work 'It Takes Two' #GameDesign #SplitFiction youtu.be/fcwngWPXQtg?...

Mega Man 2. The level design, the music, the character work. I was...maybe a little too obsessed with that one as a kid.

Which games made the biggest splash at Gamescom? #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

Every EMERGENT Design Pattern Explained in 8 Minutes #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gamedesign

cool video that talks about FALLSTRUKTUR, Mosa Lina, Staftat & Öoo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NV4...

Boss Fight Secrets Are Crazy #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

Game Dev Recap: Making Viral Games #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

The Story of the First Video Game Cartridge #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #YouTube

Concept Art Workflows #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gameart

About the principles of golf course design, which is the ancestor of level design takashioya.com/golf/princip... #GameDesign #LevelDesign

Game development.

Designing levels for abilities the player might not have #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

Being a level designer on Dishonored 2 (15 questions) #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gamedesign

Game dev priorities... #indiedev #gamedev #gamedesign

How Game Localization Differs from Other Types of Translation #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

100% “Overwhelmingly Positive” is insane!! Is this even possible!? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to top this in my lifetime!

The 100% bonus has ended!! It’s an absolute miracle that I was able to keep the bonus going up to 500!! Thank you so much for playing and even taking the time to leave a review!

"Öoo" the bomb caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer, is out now! 🎉 Dive into an adventure packed with discovery and clever puzzles, we hope you enjoy it! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

Capcom is increasing the base salary of its employees by 30% in Japan #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

In the Japanese game design community, the topic of NamaTakahashi's new work "Öoo" is full of topics. This work, which is surprisingly 100% "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam, is a type of platform action called Metroidbrainia. store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/... #GameDesign

A few weeks ago, I shared practical tips on how to merge concept art and level design in one shot, around social media. The response was positive, so I put together a free manual on exploring more of that, so you can use it in your projects: www.menogcreative.com/s/level-desi...

Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one. docseuss.medium.com/first-person...

Another fascinating article from Doc; this time an analytical look at the first-person-shooters of yesteryear, and how very different they feel compared to modern takes on the genre! Doc's reasoning behind these different feelings is pretty fascinating; give this a read if you're into game design!

Zen And Game Development ##gamedev##gamedevelopment##indiedev

Wouldn't surprise me if meterfuckery and taking after FF7R's ATB more becomes the way forward for action games, once everyone is gradually forced to conclude that "parry when boss flashes red and dodge when flashes yellow, we also delayed all attacks btw" games have oversaturated the market

i think the crit builds in ffo mandating you to switch between the two modes of thinking (parrying frontal attacks to build up MP before cashing out with job swap combos from behind) is a neat iteration on trying to find a middle ground

Unless you go all-in on timing like a rhythm game or all in on meter management like an RPG, you're stuck in this awkward middle ground where you get the depth of neither, nor that of proper 2D/3D space control. And then you have to somehow design encounters that play differently from eachother

If I had to sum up my issue with Modern Action Game Design, it's that in trying to be more accessible via making 3D/2D gameplay more 1D by emphasizing timing and meters so much, you're left with the question of how much you can even DO using 1D, and what that means for potential encounter variety

A little about the conditional turn based battle (ctb) #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

UFO 50 out on Switch today !! 😍 If you're interested in game design, this collection is a MINEFIELD of ideas and innovation. It's so interesting to see the rankings of the collection, and how much they vary between individuals

Getting Started with #GameDevelopment can be overwhelming, even if you have a good premise, there's a lot that goes in to a #GameDesign document which is why I did this video on The Planning Phase of the Game Development Lifecycle youtu.be/kv1MPqp3UMk?... via @YouTube

There is No Magic Formula for Game Balance ##gamedev##gamedevelopment##indiedev

You can’t build the future of #gamedev without understanding its past. Discover the classics, their breakthroughs, and their failures with our 'History of Video Games: a tale of tech and game design' course. Classes start this December 🕹️ www.d6learning.com/course/dec-g...

What is Player Agency? www.universityxp.com/blog/2... @davengdesign #gamesbasedlearning #gamedesign #gaming #gamedevelopment #gamification #gbl #games4ed #gamificationoflearning #edgames