I bet you’ve been positively climbing up the walls to see the continuation of my previous post on challenge in game design. It’s been an unclosed loop, a loose end, a DREAM of yours yet unfulfilled. Don’t worry, I’m here to help. Aye, the supposed rub: You can’t design an[…]
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I have been thinking a lot recently about the use of challenge in game design after a good friend of mine mentioned that I’m somebody who can’t stand to play a game unless it is hard enough. (I’m looking at you, Assassin’s Creed 2.) I’ve written enough about this now[…]
There are many ways that a game can reward its player. In modern games we have come to appreciate the ability of concrete achievements and unlockables to cause players to game longer and harder. Congratulations, you’ve killed 1000 men in your manshoot game (as Rock Paper Shotgun so affectionately calls[…]
In my review of the Checklist Manifesto, I promised to write a post about some checklist applications for scientists and researchers. At first I thought I had exhausted any content with the post about Adam Savage’s tips. However, there are important distinctions between those tips and a good checklist. In[…]
For a long time when thinking about game balance I fell into the trap of thinking that when something was “perfectly balanced” then all the strategies available to the player were equally viable. If they weren’t all viable, then what was the use of having those strategies available at all?[…]