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: Game Design
Game design Toolbox – Kleenex testing
Human can learn about anything. It does not matter how badly designed, you can always find some individuals that will figure out how to make…
Game design Toolbox – How the eye and brain works
The human eye is a wonderful instrument. The really amazing part is that it is not as good as it seems, but that the brain…
Game design Toolbox – Good and Bad practices
Bad Practice Designing a new game is such a complex intellectual enterprise that the people involved in it are falling into predictable pits: -They will…
Game design Toolbox – Top 10 ideas to steal
By Bing Gordon, October 1999 10. Win first, win fast. “90% of Sonic players win the first level the first try.” “90% in 10 minutes”…
Game design Toolbox – Emerging Truths
Expect Iterations When I was a director of development, I was really hoping to work on game designs that would be finished by the time…
Game design Toolbox – Brag
I believe that for a game to be successful, it is best to figure out how the users will be able to participate in a…
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…
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…