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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 with the game constantly are Read more

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 important question, what makes a Read more

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 they handed out 300 loyalty Read more

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 framing effect. Here’s a quote Read more