Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)
https://keithburgun.net/outside-dungeon-town-integrating-the-three-places-in-videogames/
#HackerNews #Outside #Dungeon #Town #IntegratingVideogames #GameDesign #2024
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you
#HackerNews #JonathanBlow #Puzzles #GameDesign #IndieGames #Creativity
jbz
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Olá, Fediverso!
Sou programadora e #gamedev generalista.
Em 2025 dirigi dois jogos e atualmente me preparo para desenvolver um projeto mais sério em 2026.
Tô no fediverso desde 2022 mas usar redes sociais nunca foi um hábito, não vejo muita graça, mas espero conseguir compartilhar mais coisas dessa vez.
Interesses: #gamedev #programação #godot #sdl #opengl #gamedesign #retro #gaming #retrogaming
Olá, Fediverso!
Sou programadora e #gamedev generalista.
Em 2025 dirigi dois jogos e atualmente me preparo para desenvolver um projeto mais sério em 2026.
Tô no fediverso desde 2022 mas usar redes sociais nunca foi um hábito, não vejo muita graça, mas espero conseguir compartilhar mais coisas dessa vez.
Interesses: #gamedev #programação #godot #sdl #opengl #gamedesign #retro #gaming #retrogaming
The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled
https://selix.net/notes/the-cities-skyline-paradox
#HackerNews #CitiesSkylines #Paradox #SequelGaming #GameDesign #IndieDev
Alex Akselrod
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"Game design is simple, actually"
https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/
"Game design is simple, actually"
https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/
James Baillie
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One of our members, indiekid, has a maths/game balancing puzzle he'd like help with. Any ideas on this? Boosts very appreciated!
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7118.msg167393#msg167393
The Art of Atari (2016)
#HackerNews #ArtOfAtari #Atari2016 #VideoGameArt #Nostalgia #GameDesign
One of our members, indiekid, has a maths/game balancing puzzle he'd like help with. Any ideas on this? Boosts very appreciated!
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7118.msg167393#msg167393
hypebot
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Could you help me find #ttrpg #games focused on disaster relief, first responders, firefighters and similar?
I'm interested in both narrative and crunchy, I want to analyze #stories and #narrative placement of the player agency, goals etc.
Bonus points for narrative analysis of such games, board games, similar video games etc. I think Pandemic Legacy would qualify.
#disaster #disasterRelief #firstResponder #emt #firefighting #climate #climateChange #gameDesign
Could you help me find #ttrpg #games focused on disaster relief, first responders, firefighters and similar?
I'm interested in both narrative and crunchy, I want to analyze #stories and #narrative placement of the player agency, goals etc.
Bonus points for narrative analysis of such games, board games, similar video games etc. I think Pandemic Legacy would qualify.
#disaster #disasterRelief #firstResponder #emt #firefighting #climate #climateChange #gameDesign
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Darius Kazemi
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The playable demo for my game project Hawthorn will be available in the coming weeks. The game's official title will be released then! The story of the game is based on the work from my Ph.D. thesis on sensemaking and information ecologies. #GameDesign #indieGame #informationBehaviour #sensemaking
A strange helix-shaped creature emerging from a green portal light in the forest of Halflight.
The character sprite for Tatter, the first psychopomp the Player meets in the game.
Another screenshot of the first chapter of Hawthorn, now in a misted forest with blue-green lanterns.
A screenshot of the opening scene from the Hawthorn demo of a silhouetted outdoor scene with a yellow and lavender pink sky.
The playable demo for my game project Hawthorn will be available in the coming weeks. The game's official title will be released then! The story of the game is based on the work from my Ph.D. thesis on sensemaking and information ecologies. #GameDesign #indieGame #informationBehaviour #sensemaking
A strange helix-shaped creature emerging from a green portal light in the forest of Halflight.
The character sprite for Tatter, the first psychopomp the Player meets in the game.
Another screenshot of the first chapter of Hawthorn, now in a misted forest with blue-green lanterns.
A screenshot of the opening scene from the Hawthorn demo of a silhouetted outdoor scene with a yellow and lavender pink sky.
I'm thinking about prototyping a quick-and-easy #solarpunk #TTRPG based on #forTheQueen game.
Little setting, no characters, just a lot of story prompts on cards the players draw one after another to tell a tale together.
Some topics I'm exploring so far:
- A rescue effort after an environmental disaster, telling the story of the community being saved
- Climate refugees moving into a new, wooden sustainable social housing
For context: https://alxd.org/notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview.html
alxd - solarpunk hacker
Notes Towards a Solarpunk Game Design - Overview
Solarpunk Game Design Sketch by Scan101 I've always been interested in game design and how subtly it can teach and influence us. It's not only how a given game is constructed on the surface, but also what emergent behaviours it can induce in us - and make us internalize, more or less consciously. I find Solarpunk fascinating as a genre which is connected to - but distinct from - other kinds of climate and science fiction. Its many perspectives are an attempt to balance a big, global narrative of saving the planet and creating a sustainable civilization with a very humane and communal perspective of our way there. I've been working on this blogpost for a year and I see that it's never going to be as comprehensive as I would like to. In the spirit of "done is better than perfect", let me then present you with my Notes Towards - and hope that you find them useful! Game Type Legend V - Video Game B - Board Game / Card Game R - Role Playing Game / Storytelling Game What makes a …
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Number of #solarpunk#TTRPG #games with dedicated fighting mechanic / focus on it:
3+
Number of Solarpunk TTRPGs games focusing on firefighting / disaster response, with dedicated mechanics:
0?
"There is just no conflict in Solarpunk, nothing dramatic"
Am I the only one who thinks that firefighting / first responder games would be absolutely awesome and better than any shootout?
Illustration: https://storyseedlibrary.org/art/jacob-coffin-civil-defense-poster/ by @jacobcoffin
Stefano Marinelli
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Our 13yo is really enjoying designing and building games using Game Maker - both personally, and as school projects.
Any advice from game designers here for some books? He's smart and an advanced reader (but of course I'm biased 🤩) so doesn't have to be anything "aimed at kids" - just "aimed at beginner game designers".
I can help with the programming part of it ... but I've only ever done the one game myself (an IF title using Inform), so I'm essentially entirely clueless when it comes to the game design part.
Our 13yo is really enjoying designing and building games using Game Maker - both personally, and as school projects.
Any advice from game designers here for some books? He's smart and an advanced reader (but of course I'm biased 🤩) so doesn't have to be anything "aimed at kids" - just "aimed at beginner game designers".
I can help with the programming part of it ... but I've only ever done the one game myself (an IF title using Inform), so I'm essentially entirely clueless when it comes to the game design part.