The Best Games Are Yet To Be Made
The Best Games Are Yet To Be Made
Michael DomenyHow’s your New Year’s resolution coming? Did it have anything to do with game design? Run a successful Kickstarter to self-publish your game? Have a publisher pick up your design?…
What makes a game worth more than a book or a movie? Humans like to get more bang for the buck. It’s just the way we think. What’s the relative…
Michael Domenys a lover of the arts, I’m always fascinated when themes, ideas, and processes translate from one genre to another. Being a student of one discipline can make us better…
Jasmine DavisIn late 2015, Jeff Cornelius left me a challenge in the League of Gamemakers Facebook group: “If you make a game about mermaids,” he said, “I’ll publish it.” Well, shoot.…
Jeff CorneliusI HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A LOVER OF MECHANICS. For as long as I can remember, I have felt the pull of new and exciting ways to take actions, of intricate…
Michael DomenyIt had been at least a solid week without much progress in one of my designs. I’ll spare you many of the details, but I had a mechanic whereby playing…
Guest AuthorIntroduction by Peter Vaughan: I often find that the games of Ta-Te Wu are very unique, and offer a perspective I don’t see in other designs. Case in point –…
Seth JaffeeI have decided to mine my game design blog for interesting posts, update them, and publish them here. What follows is one of those posts, originally written September 05, 2008, edited and…
adminTHE LEAGUE OF GAMEMAKERS RETURNS IN ONE WEEK! Our authors are back for another fun year of posts! We’ll bring you more convention and festival coverage, resources for new and…
adminYou assess the table for options. Your move seems either to take 3 additional turkey units or discard all remaining table scraps and move into dessert territory… Happy Thanksgiving, for…
Tom Jolly
