Game design Toolbox – User Interface
Game design Toolbox – User Interface Your UI Design Is Not Finished Until The Game Is Finished The UI needs to be an elegant interface…
Author: Luc Barthelet
Game design Toolbox – Memorable moments
The first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes of the game. Sid Meier’s focuses especially on those two key moments between the game and…
Game design Toolbox – Know your classics
Study of the coin-op games The coin-op environment is very special and very different from the business model of the games developed by EA. Let…
Replacement Rules – SimCity 3000
Building the road networks in SimCity 3000 In 1997 I started to work at Maxis, as General Manager. Our key product to release was SimCity…
Game design Toolbox – Customization
When you go to the movies, it makes you want to be a movie director, or an actor. When you play games, you wish you…
Game design Toolbox – Data Structures and Algorithms
As the design starts to make progress, it becomes increasingly important to develop the data structures. Those data structures are used to provide feedback to…
Game design Toolbox – Symbolism – Granularity
Granularity, Symbol Or Representation? This is one of my favorite subjects. When designing the details of a game, where do you stop? Should we see…
Game design Toolbox – What is not in the game
Define What Is Not In The Game So many people are trying to define games by adding more and more things to existing games, that…
Game design Toolbox – Walk through – Narratives
This tools is used very often. The designer writes what he expects the first user experience to be upon using the product the first time.…
Game design Toolbox – User time investment
Game design Toolbox – User time investment How is the user or character investing its time? I found it useful to define early what the…