Achieving playfulness in strategy game design

Game design is simple, actually

So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…

Play is doing its work even if we’re not keeping score | Aeon Essays

We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

How Strategy Really Works. This approach grew out of the strategy practice at Monitor Company and subsequently became the standard process at P&G.

A speech about Free-to-Play game design

About a month ago, I gave a speech at Creative Mornings in Portland about the way the Free-to-Play business model affects game design. I compared games to television, looking at the way television business models have drastically affected the composition of those shows.

GameSpot's SIMply Divine: The Story of Maxis Software

GameSpot   action   adventure   driving   puzzle   role-playing   simulation   sports   strategy   hardware

Strategy in Life

What is Strategy? Why is it easy to get wrong and so hard to get right? Strategy Structures in Life Concept-Space Getting from one point to another In a predefined direction Stars as Concept-space analogy By predefined actions Strategy in Life Know your surroundings Creating Strategies Using Strategies Summary Strategy...

Axes of Victory

Here is a game design concept we’ve been talking about on the Keith Burgun Discord. I think it is useful for creating and honing the type of “strategic dance” we find in games lik…

Designing Imaginative Environments by Nathan Fowkes

Join industry veteran Nathan Fowkes on a deep dive into the hows and whys of designing environments for entertainment. From creating mood with color and light, to exploring different biomes and weather, to crafting architecture and props, he will teach you how to design amazing environments that make your work stand out from the crowd.

Designing Games With Esports In Mind - Hotspawn

With the rapid growth of esports, more and more designers are setting out to develop a game with the hopes of it becoming the next big competative game.

The rule to making your own game is that there are no rules

There's nothing like laughing until your stomach hurts while playing a game with your friends and family — especially when it's a game where you make the rules.

Guide to Incrementals/Appeal to Players | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy

How CEO Tobi Lütke Applied StarCraft Gaming Strategies & Concepts To Build Shopify

Designing Strategy: Rushdown, Economy, and Defense

Hey everyone! Today I have a good-old-fashioned formalist-ish game design article. It’s been a little while since I’ve really done one of those, unless it was attached to Push the Lane.…