Game Design

February 15, 2020February 15, 2020

Evolution of Pokemon Designs – Gen 2

Transcript Note: This video is comparing designs of Pokemon, and thus is heavily focused on visual information that cannot truly be captured in text. Therefore, watching the video is highly recommended, if possible. What’s up designers and welcome back to Rempton Games. Today I am super excited to take a look at the designs of…

February 1, 2020

Link’s Awakening and Fractal Game Design

Transcript What’s up designers and welcome back to Rempton Games! Fractals are, in my opinion, one of the coolest things out there. A fractal can be anything that shows self similarity at different scales, which basically means that it looks similar when you zoom in and out on it. Mathematics has come up with some…

January 18, 2020

Run, Jump and Climb: Designing Fun Movement in Games

In video games there are few things as fundamental as moving your character around the screen. Whether it’s 2D or 3D, a shooter or an RPG, most games will put the player in control of a character that then has to walk, run, jump or fly around the screen. Because moving around seems so…

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020

Evolution of Pokemon Designs – Gen 1

Transcript What’s up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. On this channel, and on my blog, I have touched on a lot of different areas of game design, but one area that I haven’t talked much about is character design. Character design may seem separate from other areas of game design like rules, systems…

December 21, 2019

Dear Game Freak: I’m Not Mad, Just Confused

What’s up everybody? I know in my last video I said that I would be talking about the lore of the Mario series, but Pokemon Sword and Shield have come out recently so I have a lot of Pokemon on my mind. Now, if you have been paying any attention to the Pokemon community over…

December 7, 2019

Grumpy Gamers – Mario Maker VS Mario – Game Grumps Parody

Transcript: Darin: I’m Grouchy! Andy: I’m much less Grouchy! Both: And We are the Grouchy Gamers! Darin: HEY EVERYBODY, welcome back to the Grouchy Gamers. I’m Darin, and this is Andy: I’m Andy Darin: And today we are going to be doing something completely different, that we have never done before – playing Mario Maker…

November 16, 2019November 18, 2019

Designing Interesting Decisions in Games (And When Not To)

Sid Meier, the designer behind the incredibly popular and influential Civilization series, once described games as “a series of interesting decisions”. In fact, it is the ability to make choices that is the core of what separates a game from a less interactive form of media, such as a book or a film. Whether it…