What’s up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. Let’s talk about Spore – the 2008 life simulation strategy game made by Maxis Studios and designer Will Wright. In Spore, players can guide the evolution of a species of creatures from the cell stage to a galactic civilization, but the part of the game that…
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What’s up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. In today’s video I want to take a look at homebrewing spells in D&D – how it’s done and what factors need to be taken into account, and share some simple example spells that I prepared earlier. I’ve broken this video into a few sections –…
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What’s up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. Today we will be taking a look at the best tips, tricks and strategies for one of the most popular gateway games around – Ticket To Ride. I’ve divided these tips into four main categories – Planning your Routes, Placing Trains, Controlling information, and alternative strategies.…
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Everybody loves powerful cards, but how do you know when something is TOO powerful? In this video I look at the 5 most common categories of broken cards to see why they are so powerful, and see how to learn from past design mistakes.
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Did you know at one point Pokemon Red and Green were only going to include 30 different Pokemon? Or that one of the designers of Pikachu liked him so much that he intentionally made him hard to find, because he didn’t want anybody else to catch one? Or that in the middle of development all…
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What’s up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. Today I want to take a look at Gwent, the fictional card game from the Witcher universe that was turned into a standalone TCG. I’m going to be talking about the inspiration behind the game, the various different versions of it, and giving my thoughts on…
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After making 8 videos about Pokemon design I decided to try it for myself! I took suggestions from Reddit (along with a few of my own ideas), and came up with 5 new designs. What Pokemon should I redesign next?
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Welcome to a new series, where I will be looking at the design challenges behind Trading Card Games, and how to solve them. Today’s episode looks at one of the most fundamental issues that can affect any TCG – the Queen’s Problem. How do you stop players from just filling their decks with all the most overpowered cards? Let’s find out!
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We made it! Today we finally talk about the most recent games in the series, Pokemon Sword and Shield. As always, we will take a look at the major design trends and themes of this generation, and how the designs have changed from previous generations!
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