Button In a Box

Can you push the button? What about pour tea without spilling any? Can you solve a murder? And what about escaping prison?

Start out in a simple white box with nothing except a desk and a button. But what is outside the box? Another box of course!

#10 Creating Sequels & Finishing my GDD

This week I have been looking into how you create sequels. Sequels are very common within games but why would you want to make one? A...

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Nov 28, 20216 min read

#9 Adding & Subtracting Mechanics

Over the past week, I have been looking at adding and subtracting mechanics in games. This comes back to the fact that bigger games are...

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Nov 28, 20216 min read

#8 Learning an Unfamiliar Genre

This week the focus has been on learning an unfamiliar genre. Before we can talk about learning new genres, let’s begin by talking about...

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Nov 20, 20214 min read

#7 Targeting a Market

As you can tell from the title, this week I have been looking at targeting a market. Targeting a market is very important in order to...

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Nov 13, 20213 min read

#6 Worldbuilding & Storytelling

As you may have realised, last week I didn’t post anything due to me going home for a week since my mother gave birth. This week however,...

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Nov 6, 20216 min read

#5 Strategy and Tactics

This week the topic was strategy and tactics. These two things are very important to consider in any game, does the players strategy...

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Oct 20, 20214 min read

#4 Elements of Chance

This week we looked at elements of chance within games and how randomness and chance can be utilised to further the fun and replay...

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Oct 15, 20216 min read

#3 Puzzle Design

This week we looked at puzzle design. So, what makes puzzles fun? Intuitive? Interesting to play? What even is a puzzle? Well, a puzzle...

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Oct 7, 20213 min read

#2 Communicating Games design

So, this week the topic was communicating games design and how I as a designer should communicate my ideas to other people. This topic is...

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Oct 2, 20215 min read

#1 Starting Again

Peace, Calm, and a drop of confusion Introduction Last Year I had to write two blogs. The first one I left until there was only a few...

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Sep 21, 20214 min read