Reviews & Previews of Indie and Kickstarted Games
Steven returns from the Indie Jungle to answer the perennial question: do I stay or do I go. Steven hopes to help guide you in figuring out which design or ideas to stick with or to leave behind. His current design Sprawlopolis, mentioned in the post, is killing it on Kickstarter.
Chris talks about game design veterans, Joshua J Mills, Net Levan, T.C. Petty III, and Steven Aramini about game design contests.
I’m relaunching The Big Question / The Big Answer feature on Go Forth And Game. In The Big Question / The Big Answer I ask designers and gamers a question related to gaming via Twitter, email, and other means. I then gather and compile the answers and will post them. This time I asked my game designer acquaintances this question – Why Do You Design Games? What is your motivation? I got some pretty good feedback from a number of nice designers. Here’s what they said. -Odin Phong, a game blogger says “I do it because I like playing new games and it keeps my brain engaged.” -Savage Yeti Games, creators of PatchWord, replied “It keeps my mind active and there’s something about making disparate ideas mesh together into a new whole.” https://www.savageyetigames.com/ -Rick Lorenzon, designer of Lords of Alchemy, says “I started designing because I wanted to create a…
After a bunch of Kickstarters, Steven returns with another installment of the Indie Jungle exploring partnerships.
Today, Fairway is taking a look at a brand new service from the folks at The Game Crafter that lets you “automagically” create and maintain cards and other component images with templates and a spreadsheet: Component Studio. This new service will make the lives of anyone creating or maintaining large numbers of game components lives much easier.
Today, Fairway reflects on the very clever “Bag Building” game mechanism used by co-contributors Steven Aramini and Dan Letzring in their upcoming Kickstarter game, Groves. This peculiar variation on the common deck-building or deck-optimization mechanisms results in some fantastic game play. So fantastic, it’s worth exploring in a bit more detail.
Steven takes game design into another dimension. He examines using vertical space in game design.
The Indie Jungle is a lush, vibrant world, filled with color, beauty and eye-popping wonderment. From wildly imaginative images in games like “Mysterium” to stellar fantasy portraits like “Abyss” to rich visual landscapes like “Tides of Time,” illustrations can transform board game players to a different reality.
You’re there… in the jungle. You’ve got so many ideas. This week, Steve guides along the path of one game design mechanism: the engine builder. No experience with cars or tools necessary.
In our third edition of One To Many – we talk “white whales” of game design.