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…
Enneper Sculpture
Sculpture for 3D printing Feb 11, 2001 Here is the source notebook for a 3D sculpture I really like. It is very organic.. it is…
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…
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…