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My First 30 Minutes: Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger

digitalhumanoid wrote 54 minutes ago: Gunslinger is the fourth game in the Call of Juarez series, developed by Techland (for which I … more →

Tags: Gaming, Review, Video Games, 360, Arcade, bar patrons, Call of Juarez, cell shading, Entertainment

Game Mechanics: The MDA Framework

nancyrubin wrote 6 hours ago: My notes after reading “MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research” by Robi … more →

Tags: gamification, Marc Leblanc, MDA Framework, Robert Zubek, Robin Hunicke

Settlers of Catan + League of Legends = ?3 comments

wylliamjudd wrote 2 days ago: I designed this game because I wasn’t satisfied with the play experience I could get from any … more →

Tags: Board Game, Game design, Gameplay, Games, Gaming, core mechanic, Magic: the gathering, rune, league of legends

Cute Things: Deponia

j3w3l wrote 3 days ago: I have had Deponia from Daedalic Entertainment in my steam library for some time now, as is the case … more →

Tags: Other Games, adventure, cute things, Deponia, Games, Gaming, Indie, Review

Human Nature Through the Lens of The Binding of Isaac’s Game Mechanics (By Jonathan Kittaka) 1 comment

seagaia wrote 4 days ago: Human Nature Through the Lens of The Binding of Isaac’s Game Mechanics  By Jonathan Kittaka  – … more →

Tags: binding of isaac, Essay, Game Design 2, Jonathan Kittaka

Minions+2 comments

redraggedfiend wrote 4 days ago: That’s right, it’s a special treat with a double post Friday. Hate them or love them minions are an … more →

Tags: DMS, D&D, 4E, RPG, DM, DnD

Car Commercials and Game Design4 comments

morrisonmp wrote 5 days ago: My first car was a 1972 Dodge Dart. It was a shade of green that I’m not sure how to even desc … more →

Tags: Game design, Game Talk, RPG, Design, System, conversational, Diceless, Shadowrun, Exalted+

Dust weaponry by type

Serpentine Logic wrote 6 days ago: CCP Remnant was asked about which weapons are classified into which types, since many tech 2 suits g … more →

Tags: dust 514, guides, Dust 514, weapons

Monetization and Cash Shop Regrets8 comments

j3w3l wrote 6 days ago: This thought has been brewing for some time but finally, without any doubt, I can say that the cash … more →

Tags: ramblings, MMO, MMO, MMORPG, Guild Wars 2, gw2, Cash Shop, annoyances, Lockbox

Survivalcraft and the small matter of sleep…

HeadBurro Antfarm wrote 1 week ago: Unlike the stamina mechanic coming in the next Survivalcraft update, I’ve been immediately gra … more →

Tags: survival craft, Games, SurvivalCraft

Skill Conundrum: Finale

redraggedfiend wrote 1 week ago: So we have had our look through the skills of a few different systems and I have whittled down what … more →

Tags: DMS, D&D, RPG, Skills, DM, DnD

To make a line following a player, just like TRON effect in Unity3D.

iamsidv wrote 1 week ago: It has rightly been said that the day without learning something new is a day that has gone waste. F … more →

Tags: coding, unity3d, 3D, android, Effects, Follow, Game design, GameObject, Games

First Paper Prototypes

rapidpotential wrote 1 week ago: Our team did ideation and discussed a lot of ways to adapt our ideas into different games, each havi … more →

Tags: planning stages, Paper Prototypes

Virtua Tennis Challenge (Android Game)

Mangla Media wrote 1 week ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. Game Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.s … more →

Tags: android game reviews, android, android game, Android games, Android Market, android phone, Android Tablet, bluetooth, Game

Be A Lazy DM, Get Some Passive Enemies

redraggedfiend wrote 1 week ago: Recently I have spent some time looking over a few independent RPGs. A local FLGS had a moving sale … more →

Tags: DMS, D&D, 4E, Dungeons, dragons, RPG, DM, DnD

Next level: How do you study gamification?1 comment

Robert van der Meer wrote 1 week ago: You’ve made the choice to use gamification and your colleagues or your customers are already working … more →

Tags: Articles, media, Game design, gamification, Game, MDA, Fun, CEGE

Interview with Youtube Gamer; ShinyTotoSu→ Part 3 / 3

Ky Grabowski wrote 1 week ago:   The Basics       Interviewee; ShinyTotoSu Interviewer; Ky The questions are all underlined. ShinyT … more →

Tags: interviews, Entertainment, Gaming, videos, Video Games, News, Courage, Blogging, ky grabowski

Development - Round One3 comments

wylliamjudd wrote 1 week ago: The untested game. Abilities are scrawled on index cards, ripped in half. A marked up piece of hex p … more →

Tags: Board Game, Game design, Gameplay, Games, Magic: the gathering, rune, league of legends, RoboRally, video game

Skill Conundrum: Exploration

redraggedfiend wrote 1 week ago: I have had a bit of a hiatus, part to outside forces needing my attention and because I had a diffic … more →

Tags: D&D, 4E, RPG, Skills, DM, DnD


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