If you’ve ever played a competitive game, you’ve probably been in a situation where you fall in love with a character, weapon, skill or deck, only to discover that it is not competitively viable. You may do your best to try and discover a new strategy, or a new combo that will make your choice…
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Have you ever encountered a door that simply refused to behave logically? Maybe it was so obvious that it was a pull door, yet turned out to require pushing instead. Or perhaps the signals were simply unclear, and either way seemed equally likely. Perhaps the door even had a helpful written sign on it to…
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Art forms can be more or less characterized by periods of stasis and evolution. A particular period of art reaches a level of equilibrium, then a new movement begins to emerge that upends the previously established state. This could be the discovery of a new artistic principle such as point perspective, or it could be…
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Hey everybody, and welcome to the second installment of the “Game Designer Spotlight” series. If you haven’t yet, check out the first entry – on famed Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Today’s spotlighted designer – Reiner Knizia – was chosen through a Twitter poll on the RemptonGames twitter page – this is my first time doing…
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There are few things that are more frustrating in games than arriving at a situation and having absolutely no idea what to do next. Maybe you are at a dead end, and you have no idea where to go next. Maybe you think you know what to do, but cannot actually figure out how to…
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In the world of gaming new, reviews and criticism, there are a few common threads that get brought up time after time. One conversation that comes up all the time is the idea that games are becoming less original. This criticism is often lobbed at large AAA studios, whose gritty open-world shooters can often seem…
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Hey everybody – This week I had to grade research papers, so I did not have time to write a new post. The article that was scheduled for this week (about personality in games) will hopefully be up next Saturday. Until then, enjoy this post about the relationship between Luck and Skill in game design,…
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