In May 1997,World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov went face to face against his greatest challenger. That challenger’s name was Deep Blue, and it was a chess playing computer developed by IBM. Kasparov had already defeated Deep Blue in a best-of 6 match the previous year, but now it was back and better than ever. While…
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Games, both digital and tabletop, have been undergoing an unprecedented explosion of creative growth over these past few decades. In Video Games the advancement of technology has allowed for incredible leaps forward in what is possible in this medium. As for tabletop games, the past few decades have brought wave after wave of innovative designs,…
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Magic: The Gathering (often simply referred to as Magic) is the oldest and most successful trading card game on the planet, and is one of the most successful tabletop games to ever exist. Magic, which was first released in 1993, has been around for over 25 years and is still going strong. It has millions…
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Sometimes as a game designer it can be easy to treat your design as an end in itself. This is a problem that I occasionally fall into – you have so many ideas for your game, and it all seems to click together perfectly in your head. Then you end up bringing it to a…
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This week I am trying something new, and reviewing a book that I recently finished reading. As you can see from the title of this article, the book I am going to look at today is Game Programming Patterns, Written by Robert Nystrom. This week is also a bit different from my usual articles in…
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Game designers wear many hats. Depending on what type of company you work for and your position within that company, designers might have to be engineers, psychologists, graphic designers, executives, and so much more. A much less common role, but no less vital, is the role of economist or central banker. Virtual economies are becoming…
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Hey everybody! Due to traveling to GDC last week I wasn’t able to post a new blog. However, I hope you enjoy this article from a few months back, and a new post will be up on Saturday this week as usual. Thanks, and I’ll see you later this week! There are few things that…
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For this week’s article I made a new video based on the article History of Game Design: The Oldest Games in the World. The topic was chosen by my followers over at the Rempton Games twitter account. I hope you enjoy, and I’ll see you next week!
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Why is education important? Aside from the inherent joy of learning and the desire to constantly improve yourself and enrich your life, the answer most people would probably give is that you need education to get a job. But why do you need a job? Why, to earn money of course! Why do you need…
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