Game Design

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…

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019

The Mystical History of Tarot Cards (History of Game Design)

Hello everybody, and welcome back to Rempton Games. Halloween is nearly upon us, so I’ve decided to do a special themed episode of History of Game Design to look at one of the spookiest game components out there – the Tarot deck. This deck is widely considered to have associations with magic and the occult,…

October 12, 2019October 12, 2019

Ocarina of Time Dungeons Ranked Part 2

Ocarina of Time is often considered to be one of the best games of all time, and it contains a dozen dungeons for Link to traverse through on his adventure. Not all these dungeons are made equal, which is why I decided to look at each dungeon from a game design perspective and give my…

October 5, 2019October 7, 2019

Ocarina of Time Dungeons Ranked Part 1

Ocarina of time is a game that holds a very special place in my heart, because it is one of the games that I poured countless hours into as a child. When I was really young Ocarina of Time was one of the only video games we had on the N64, and my siblings and…