Hey everybody! The last few weeks I have been writing my annual review articles, and haven’t been able to put up any new game design content. That, however, changes today. As promised, today is the third entry in my series “Game Design in Real Life”, where I take a look at how game design can…
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Last week, in order to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of starting my blog I decided to review all of the articles that I have posted in the last year. If you haven’t read part 1, you should check it out because I explain everything in much more detail there. Last week I only got…
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Today’s article is going to be a little different than my usual articles. Instead of blogging about game design, strategy, or history, I am going to be talking about this blog itself. Last Saturday marked the 1 year anniversary of my first post on this blog, and I though that would be a good time…
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Pokemon is one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world right now, and is a franchise that has been a part of my life since the anime first started airing. I remember playing the early games on my Gameboy, watching the movies in the theater and trying to collect all of the toys from…
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Hey everybody! Last week, we talked about a number of different strategies that can be used to win at the game of Rock-Paper Scissors (if you missed it, you can find it here). This week, we are going to go a step further and see how these strategies can be applied to other games. It’s…
Read MoreRock-Paper-Scissors is one of those games that is so ubiquitous that it’s hard to imagine a world without it. As a tool for making random decisions, it ranks up there with flipping a coin or shaking a magic 8 ball. The difference, however, is that there is no World Championship of Flipping Coins. Despite it’s…
Read MoreWhen I started researching for this article, my original plan was to talk mainly about a category of games known as “Solved Games”, or games that have a mathematically proven optimal strategy. I was going to use that article to talk about what it means to have solved a game, different games that have been…
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