Design Process

Design Process

• Game Dev Challenges .

• Acerola - On the difficulty of making games .

  • Pretty good. Shows the difficulty well, although I still think it's a bit understated.

• Evolving from a Beginner Game Developer to Novice .

• Evolving from a Novice Game Developer to Intermediate .

• Failing in the right direction so you don't quit Game Development .

• Make systems, not games, if you are aiming for something ambitious .

Design Ideas

• AdamCYounis - Process of creating a Mini-game .

Difficulty

• Creating different difficulty curves by inducing more player movement .

• Making a design challenging and punitive, and receiving playtester feedback .

Replayability

• Creating replayability via speedrun, competition and curiosity .

  • Great video.

  • The author categorized the video as:

    1. Incentives.

    2. Rewards.

    3. Speedrun

  • It's funny to see people going OOB during speedruns, sounds cool.

• Create an orthogonal design (Linearly Independent Mechanics) .

  • The idea of creating mechanics that are Linearly Independent so one mechanic cannot be used to reach another.

  • In other words, it's about creating new mechanics that don't derive from previous mechanics.