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Keep designing, keep developing, keep creating! W

Keep designing, keep developing, keep creating!

Wish you the best in you projects!

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GDC vault and its YouTube channel contains vast an

GDC vault and its YouTube channel contains vast and fascinating resources to advance your career. To help you looking for talks, here I present to you 5 of my favourites. I have many more "favourites" hahaha so if you want more like this, leave a comment below!

Find the links here: https://gamedesignthinking.com/5-great-gdc-talks-for-game-designers/ or in our bio!

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User Interface (UI) is a pretty important discipli

User Interface (UI) is a pretty important discipline in game development. UI is the communication between the player and the game. It determines a great deal of what the player learns and how the feedback is received.

Let's analyze 4 different ways to implement the UI in your games. There are more so, keep tuned for more!

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Do you want to try a new game? I've launched a new

Do you want to try a new game? I've launched a new prototype called "The Leftovers: A Game About Production". It's a Resource Management game with a little twist that you can play today on Itch.io

Check the game at [https://gabrielchaurigames.itch.io/the-leftovers](https://gabrielchaurigames.itch.io/the-leftovers), and if you can, give us your feedback. It will be greatly appreciated as it will help us to improve the game!

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Do you want to direct video games? If that's the c

Do you want to direct video games? If that's the case, I recommend you the book "Directing Video Games 101" by Brian Allgeier, Game Director in games such as Ratchet & Clank and Edge of Nowhere.

This is an amazing book full of very useful tips to direct videogames in any capacity, from an indie development to a AAA project. This book is a great way to see games more holistically, taking into account design, narrative, production and more, all explained through specific examples and the years of experience accumulated by the author.

Good reading!
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We too believe that better games can create a bett

We too believe that better games can create a better world and the best way to do it is one person at a time. Games have a real life influence as any piece of art so focusing on making better and more respectful experiences for our players must be a concern from the get go.

Better games create a better world!

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Objectives are usually the first step to design a

Objectives are usually the first step to design a game. Defining what your players will do most of the time is also an important for your players to decide WHY they should play your game.

Having a clearly defined and communicated objective will make you easier to find players and for them to enjoy your game

Here, we explore 4 questions that you can ask yourself to define the best objective for your game.

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Have you ever wondered how to define the initial s

Have you ever wondered how to define the initial state or layout of your game? Thinking about it early in the development of your game will help you a lot to identify problems that your players can encounter while playing the game.

Along with the player's main objective, the initial state of your game (either board or digital) must be clearly communicated and must support the rules and the objective of your game.

Have you ever played a game of chess with variations? What was your experience? Tell us in the comments!

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Playing can be seen as not important or just as a

Playing can be seen as not important or just as a pastime. But play (and games) have a very important part to play in the development of the human being, imagination and creation.

But there is another component of play that we usually forget about. Failing is also part of playing. Both in games and in life, sometimes we fail. But failing is a ladder that will eventually lead to success. It's important to don't escape from your mistakes. After you fail at something, sit down, evaluate the experience, gather insights and move on with the new acquired knowledge.

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Motivation is a pretty important element to take i

Motivation is a pretty important element to take into account, both to make players start playing your game, as well as to maintain them playing.

Self-determination theory or SDT is a good starting point to analyze and devise systems to motivate your players. It's based on three pillars: Competence, Autonomy and Relatedness (the mnemonic CAR helps me to remember them 🚗)

Competence is about making your players feel skillful and that the objectives presented by the game are achievable with the tools and skills that they have, or at least, they know how to improve in order to achieve them.

Autonomy makes your players feel like it's THEIR experience. They feel in full control of it. Giving them ways to personalize the gameplay (like skill trees or cosmetic personalization) will help them a lot, what is called the IKEA effect.

Last but not least, Relatedness is about make your players connected with each other, both in cooperation and competition. Giving them opportunities to connect, like chats, leaderboards or guilds are quite helpful, but more subtle ways can work too, like achievements or even sharing options.

So, are you using CAR 🚗 to motivate your players?

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