Maybe you don’t know it, but in the olden days, I was a professional musician. Furthermore, I was specifically a Jazz professional musician and I even was a Music Theory teacher for more than five years before going full-time into game design. Sometimes I feel that all of that time was utterly lost, but other …
Where does this comes from? Eames interview A few days ago, I was reading ‘What Is Your Definition Of Design, Monsieur Eames?’, a Q&A session in which designer and architect Charles Eames succinctly answers a series of questions about design, art and life. I highly recommend you to go and read the Q&A whenever you …
Introduction This blog post was inspired by the research and analysis that I did of Disco Elysium for my latest video for Game Design Thinking. In this blog, I will go a little deeper into the most important part of the video, namely, the description and explanation of why Disco Elysium’s system is so unique and compelling. We …
5 great gdc talks for game designers GDC is one of the most important gaming events. It’s a great place to network but also to hear amazing talks given by experienced game developers in many areas. In this new post, I have selected 5 GDC talks that in my opinion, are great for a Game …
What is Relatedness Millions of users visit the Google landing page each day and I think that we gamers and game designers alike were pleased when we started to play Doodle Champion Island, a game that was surprisingly presented in the landing page of Google. The game is cute, fun and is full of exploration …
Introduction – WHy Before We Leave? There are games that you want to play because there is an innovative mechanic that draws your attention to it and you want to check what it is all about and analyze it from the design point of view. There are other games that just caught your eye at …
Abstract NOTE: This is a translation from an article that I wrote and was published by Ludology, the first Chilean magazine about game design, publishing articles by the likes of Marc Albinet (Assassin’s Creed) and Richard Bartle (MUD1, “Designing Virtual Worlds”). The following text aims to analyze the influence of real-world systems on videogames and …
My goal with this short essay is to analyze player decisions regards the Book of Laws and how this system transcend the game to have implications outside it. My main motivation to make this analysis is that I love strategy games but also meaningful games, so I want to grasp how systems, narrative and mechanics …
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