Category: Game Design
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Design Brain Dump – Strategic Diversity (#1)
Importance Of Balance Balance is one of the most important aspects of any game. If a game isn’t balanced, strategic thinking can quickly shrink down to a single, boring decision path. This is even more crucial in RTS games. A single unit without a proper counter can do more harm…
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Hades: Small Analysis
Game balance is of the utmost importance to how a game feels , it’s usually associated with making a game “fair”, however it goes well beyond that, giving the player a sense of progression both in skill and character, giving them new challenges to solve and new ways to engage…
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Luck in games (RNG)
There are plenty of articles and videos on RNG (stands for Random Number Generators) out there so I thought I’d throw in my own perspective as well, this comes from my reading on the topic and also personal experience from playing games with big luck elements. Let’s start with an…
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Endowed Progress
We discussed multiple psychological behaviors already, in this post we’ll explore endowed progress. To get us started on what endowed progress might be, let’s look at an experiment which will gives us a pretty good idea: Joseph Nunes and Xavier Dreze were behind a car wash experiment, in this study…
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Framing Effect
Games are composed by a string of decisions that players take, its this autonomy in fact that often differentiates movies from video games. However something that is rarely talked about is how as a Game Designer you can shift choices people make by framing things differently. This is called the…
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Loss Aversion
A topic that I always find interesting is how to leverage human psychology into creating more immersive experiences for players. So I decided to write this blog post on some research I did not so long ago. Let’s first start by reflecting on this specific scenario. You and I each…
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