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A few posts back I talked about giving affordances

A few posts back I talked about giving affordances to your players, but what if you create affordances for yourself, as a game designer?

Take common objects and mechanics and put them on their feet, giving them new life and new uses. That’s the gist of creativity!

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What if… Thanks for your words of wisdom, Miyamo

What if… Thanks for your words of wisdom, Miyamoto-san.

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Level Design is an interesting part of the design

Level Design is an interesting part of the design of the game. While thoroughly applied on action, RPG and platform games, knowing level design can give you a different perspective on game design, it doesn’t matter if you are a systems designer, an environment artist or a game designer.

Level Design is what results when the concepts of game design are applied to the game, so it’s critical to get it right. A great level design will make the game design shine, while a bad level design will obscure the design of the game, and therefore, most of its fun.

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Is Game Design Art or Not? What’s your opinion?

Is Game Design Art or Not? What’s your opinion?

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What is Design? . #GameDesignThinking #GameDesi

What is Design?

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As promised, the explanation of signifiers. As aut

As promised, the explanation of signifiers. As author Don Norman puts it in his book “The Design of Everyday Things”, many designers approach him saying that they were going to “put an affordance” to indicate how users should interact with the object. This is not correct: remember that affordances are relationships, not properties.

To nudge your players and signaling how they should interact with your game, you should design signifiers. These are common signs and indications that your players can use to navigate your game with ease. If you add multiple signifiers, you are increasing the chances that your players will understand your design at a glance.

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Many of you approached me after my last post to as

Many of you approached me after my last post to ask me about affordances. So here is a short explanation of affordances and how can you implement them in your games.

By the way, green barrels can also be explosive!

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Affordances are important for the design process,

Affordances are important for the design process, but they are not often discussed, measured or considered during the design process.

Affordances are also dangerous, in a good way. It gives your players the agency to do things with your game that you never imagined! Just think about Minecraft and you’ll realise what it means to players to give them enough affordances so they can put their creativity into practice.

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There are many ways to prototype a card game. I’

There are many ways to prototype a card game. I’d recently had the opportunity to prototype a card game. In reality, I ended up prototyping 3 different games each one supporting very different characteristics and play styles.

You can find the tools and the technique I used to prototype the card game. I reduced tremendously the amount of time needed to make changes and I was able to make changes on the go for playtesting sessions.

I hope this is useful for you, but I’m looking forward to hear your tools and techniques to prototype games!

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A difficult feature to achieve in a game, speciall

A difficult feature to achieve in a game, specially in video games, is give players a lot of agency. It’s part of achieving a balance between directing your players and give them enough opportunities to meaningfully interact with the systems of the game.

It’s easier to create a game that “plays” your players, but it’s probably not very fun for them.

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It’s easier to create a game that “plays” your players, but it’s probably not very fun for them.

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