COVID-19 Would Make an Interesting Computer Game
While some of us are in lockdown, or voluntarily self-isolating, let’s use the opportunity to think about COVID-19 from a game perspective
Game Design
The Story of Sync: Making a Puzzle Game
I was in middle school, had just learned to program, and wanted to make a puzzle game.
3 Game Ideas for Your Next Game
Coming up with ideas for games is hard. That’s one of the wonderful things about restrictive game jams, you get a set of criteria and you need to work within it. Sometimes it really helps and some super interesting things can come out of it.
But other times you want to sit down and come up with something. And that’s hard. I’ve sat around and thought up many different ideas that I never did anything with, so I’ve dusted off the old notebooks and I’m writing them up here in the hopes that someone, somewhere, takes one of these ideas, turns it into a game, makes a billion dollars and splits it with me.
I’m kidding, they’re free. Take them, make them, suceed.
What I learnt in Game Design School
The very first thing that I learnt, and what many people will learn first, about the games industry is the sheer amount of roles that make up a team. Strangely enough, that’s not something that many people will be aware of until they reach university or college – and, in many ways, it’s almost too late.
Choice vs Combine
I do not remember where I read or heard about this idea, but it made thinking up skill and ability mechanics for an RPG really interesting. Basically you give a player either “choice” or “combine”.