Game design Toolbox – Overview
“Things Well Understood Are Explained Well” The number one thing I learned from my years in engineering school is that “Things well understood are explained…
Category: Electronic Arts
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…
Game design Toolbox – Stairs of Productivity
Different goals at different scales, the “plateaus” graph The game is requiring the player to have different goals. Often the player is expected to be…
Game design Toolbox – The Game State Landscape
Game State Landscape Another tool to think about the game that I learned from Will Wright: Project the state of the game onto two dimensions…
False Perspective
A video game trick, to provide a stronger perception of speed 1993- We are building a 3DO version of Road Rash internally at Electronic Arts.…