#Game design

[prokopetz]

A much-requested addition to Eat God which ended up taking surprisingly few words to address.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #eat god #game design

[jesawyer]

Do you prefer skill/stat checks that are chance based, or just a flat you pass or you don't pass? Example: To reactivate a robot you need a Robotics skill of 50. If you have 49 in Robotics you're guaranteed to fail. If you have 50 in Robotics you're guaranteed to succeed, vs. If you have a Robotics skill of 50 it gives you a 50% chance of reactivating the robot.

Flat checks whenever the checks are "stand alone", i.e. they are not part of a series of checks and cannot easily be retried via reloading or other mechanics that require no adaptation from the player.

RNG in stand alone checks you can retry with no cost (other than time) feels more than pointless to me. Feels bad imo.

#game design

[nancydrewgamesofficial]

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#nancy drew #her interactive #nancy drew mystery games #nancy drew moment #herinteractive #amateur sleuth #nancydrew #mystery games #nancy drew games #junior detective #mystery of the seven keys #prague castle #prague #czech republic #czechia #character reveal #character art #character design #concept art #video game #game design #game development #game dev #nancy drew pc games #clue crew

[underspacegame]

Hasn't even been a month and someone has already modded Thomas the Tank Engine into Underspace.

#underspace #game development #gamedev #video games #game design #unity3d #space #indie games #space games #space game

[bdragon1727]

Avatar Frame part 1

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#game design #pixel art #graphic design #pixel #pixel graphics #pixel sprite #aseprite #items #uidesign #gamedev

[omeletcat]

i can't be the only one that doesn't remember gwimbly having a fucking tail?? i played all his games and never noticed this wtf??

#pixel art #pixelart #programming #game development #indie game dev #game dev update #pixel illustration #pixel game #game design #game dev stuff #game dev #game dev blog #game developers #indiegamedev #indie dev #indie game #sprites #sprite #sprite art #sprite edit #pixel sprite #my sprites #aseprite #8 bit #gwimbly #glep #charlie smiling friends #smiling friends fanart #charlie dompler #pim pimling

[boggsart]

I got a lot of requests from people, wanting to see a menu animation for both Echo and Crosshair. Originally only Hunter was supposed to have one, then Tech also got one (why wouldn’t he), but due to the amount of requests, I got a lot of motivation to go back to working on TBB again. Would love to make one for both, but time is extremely limited, so I’ll let yall and the people on instagram decide✨

#star wars #clone wars #the bad batch #tbb #clone force 99 #bad batch echo #bad batch crosshair #game design #game dev #my polls

[blackblooms]

We have officially reached 20 follows on gamejolt. Which means you people earned the character page for irredeamable main antagonist.

Keep following Irredeamable and i' ll do something once we reach 30 follows.

Ursula Valenhart:

Ursula is the daughter of the great Uther Valenhart, Owner of Valenhart Industries and wealthiest man in New Eden. She is the latest descendant of Boris, the legendary hero who defeated the great calamity centuries ago. Working directly under her father, Ursula acts as an unofficial leader to the New-Eden Peacekeepers in their mission to protect the city from thieves and ruffians. Ursula is a bold, proud, and fierce woman, showing no mercy to her opponent and taking great pride in her work as the city's finest champion.

Having grown in the city slums as a young lass, Ursula is very fammiliar with the grimy bowels of the city and the many gangs of criminals that occupy it. She had acted as a local hero in her youth, but was eventually discovered by her father who raised her as proper heir to the Valenhart name and the Thunder Dragon Title. She rarely frequents the lower city anymore, finding it to be a shameful reminder of her less than remarquable past…

This character profile was sponsored by Valenhart Industries and the New Eden peacekeepers.

#solodev #game development #indiegamedev #irredeamable #original character #game design #indiedev #fantasy #fantasy world #antagonist #knight #fantasy knight #cyborg #heroic #indie games #villain #female villains

[greenflamethegf]

TBH that might even thiner they avrage

#transfem #lesbian #game dev #game design #t4t lesbian #196 #video games #wlw #trans #r/196 #rule #twitter #twitter screenshot #beautiful body #body positivity #that's my girl #Out there on twitter #having fun #I hope

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

i think i could design a better death arena for children than those hunger games amateurs.

the whole premise of the games is all pageantry. every year you get a crop of 24 candidates around whom the entire state media apparatus dedicates an entire year to building celebrity narratives. this candidate is the younger sibling of last year's winner - these candidates are young lovers forced to compete - he's smart - she's fast - root for them, care about them, watch them, form opinions on them, bet on them. and then they stick them all in an arena to kill each other, which is a great entertainment premise, except that they make the arenas themselves really boring and generic. ooo, they're in...a forest.

it's not even an interestingly designed forest. imagine if the game designers treated their arena like an actual video game designer treats level design. discrete zones with multiple paths between each room, creative use of lighting to guide players to points of interest, points of interest scattered across the map, discoverable resources hidden to encourage exploration. instead they just have a generic outdoors location and if you get too close to the edge they throw a random fireball at you.

the 75th games are especially bad about this. the arena is laid out radially into 12 wedges, and each hour one wedge becomes especially dangerous in a 12-hour loop. as a mechanic, this is genius. it forces everyone to keep moving, making "survival by hiding" an engaging and tense viewing experience instead of someone sitting in a tree for three days. plus, it encourages players to return to the center of the arena, where travel time between wedges is short, which creates a high-value zone for players to regularly return to and conflict over. in other words, it's a mechanic which incentives players to adopt dramatic, dynamic, exciting behaviors which are entertaining to watch (not to mention it communicates geography to the audience well). but it only incentives those behaviors if the players understand what's happening, and they go out of their way not to tell the players anything! when they figure out what's going on, the showrunners spin the arena to disorient the players, like they're intentionally trying to get them to just. randomly wander the jungle instead.

this isn't even to mention how often they create undramatic, boring deaths. they plant poison berries around the arena. they supply no fresh water and no way to get it. they roll poison clouds over sleeping victims. these happen to work out in the books themselves but you have to imagine that extremely often these just result in players dying unexciting deaths.

the cardinal sin though, of course, is that nothing is done to personalize the arena for the crop of contestants that year. if i'm designing the 75th hunger games and two of my most beloved contestants famously had to cancel their wedding because of a return to the games, i would OBVIOUSLY give them a trail of, i don't know, wild game which conveniently leads directly past a well defended wedding chapel. will they hole up there for a while? hold a mock ceremony for themselves? do or receive ironic violence here? stare wistfully and move on? any of it is better television than getting attacked by generic attack monkeys. you should have a dozen of these things on the map for every single candidate. but the game makers are more interested in doing the same thing every other game has done than in telling a compelling story.

it makes me second guess enjoying the children's murder arenas at all.

#the hunger games #game design

[insertdisc5]

📚 A List Of Useful Websites When Making An RPG 📚

My timeloop RPG In Stars and Time is done! Which means I can clear all my ISAT gamedev related bookmarks. But I figured I would show them here, in case they can be useful to someone. These range from "useful to write a story/characters/world" to "these are SUPER rpgmaker focused and will help with the terrible math that comes with making a game".

This is what I used to make my RPG game, but it could be useful for writers, game devs of all genres, DMs, artists, what have you. YIPPEE

Writing (Names)

Behind The Name - Why don't you have this bookmarked already. Search for names and their meanings from all over the world!

Medieval Names Archive - Medieval names. Useful. For ME

City and Town Name Generator - Create "fake" names for cities, generated from datasets from any country you desire! I used those for the couple city names in ISAT. I say "fake" in quotes because some of them do end up being actual city names, especially for french generated ones. Don't forget to double check you're not 1. just taking a real city name or 2. using a word that's like, Very Bad, especially if you don't know the country you're taking inspiration from! Don't want to end up with Poopaville, USA

Writing (Words)

Onym - A website full of websites that are full of words. And by that I mean dictionaries, thesauruses, translators, glossaries, ways to mix up words, and way more. HIGHLY recommend checking this website out!!!

Moby Thesaurus - My thesaurus of choice!

Rhyme Zone - Find words that rhyme with others. Perfect for poets, lyricists, punmasters.

In Different Languages - Search for a word, have it translated in MANY different languages in one page.

ASSETS

In general, I will say: just look up what you want on itch.io. There are SO MANY assets for you to buy on itch.io. You want a font? You want a background? You want a sound effect? You want a plugin? A pixel base? An attack animation? A cool UI?!?!?! JUST GO ON ITCH.IO!!!!!!

Visual Assets (General)

Creative Market - Shop for all kinds of assets, from fonts to mockups to templates to brushes to WHATEVER YOU WANT

Velvetyne - Cool and weird fonts

Chevy Ray's Pixel Fonts - They're good fonts.

Contrast Checker - Stop making your text white when your background is lime green no one can read that shit babe!!!!!!

Visual Assets (Game Focused)

Interface In Game - Screenshots of UI (User Interfaces) from SO MANY GAMES. Shows you everything and you can just look at what every single menu in a game looks like. You can also sort them by game genre! GREAT reference!

Game UI Database - Same as above!

Sound Assets

Zapsplat, Freesound - There are many sound effect websites out there but those are the ones I saved. Royalty free!

Shapeforms - Paid packs for music and sounds and stuff.

Other

CloudConvert - Convert files into other files. MAKE THAT .AVI A .MOV

EZGifs - Make those gifs bigger. Smaller. Optimize them. Take a video and make it a gif. The Sky Is The Limit

Marketing

Press Kitty - Did not end up needing this- this will help with creating a press kit! Useful for ANY indie dev. Yes, even if you're making a tiny game, you should have a press kit. You never know!!!

presskit() - Same as above, but a different one.

Itch.io Page Image Guide and Templates - Make your project pages on itch.io look nice.

MOOMANiBE's IGF post - If you're making indie games, you might wanna try and submit your game to the Independent Game Festival at some point. Here are some tips on how, and why you should.

Game Design (General)

An insightful thread where game developers discuss hidden mechanics designed to make games feel more interesting - Title says it all. Check those comments too.

Game Design (RPGs)

Yanfly "Let's Make a Game" Comics - INCREDIBLY useful tips on how to make RPGs, going from dungeons to towns to enemy stats!!!!

Attack Patterns - A nice post on enemy attack patterns, and what attacks you should give your enemies to make them challenging (but not TOO challenging!) A very good starting point.

How To Balance An RPG - Twitter thread on how to balance player stats VS enemy stats.

Nobody Cares About It But It’s The Only Thing That Matters: Pacing And Level Design In JRPGs - a Good Post.

Game Design (Visual Novels)

Feniks Renpy Tutorials - They're good tutorials.

I played over 100 visual novels in one month and here’s my advice to devs. - General VN advice. Also highly recommend this whole blog for help on marketing your games.

I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye

#reference #tutorial #writing #rpgmaker #renpy #video games #game design #i had this in my drafts for a while so you get it now. sorry its so long #long post

[prokopetz]

I love it when farm animals in strategy games have their own little pockets of visibility in the fog of war, because the fog of war is ostensibly a visual abstraction of military intelligence-gathering, which implies that the goat is submitting intel reports.

#gaming #video games #strategy games #fog of war #game design #ludonarrative dissonance

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #97

A roguelike game that takes place in the world's biggest library, which has been overrun by monsters, where you play as a librarian determined to save it. You venture inside the library armed with your weapon of choice and two messenger bags you plan to fill with whatever books you can rescue.

After you clear the monsters in a particular section of the library, such as the Poetry section, you'll unlock a permanent buff that will last for the remaining of that run. For example: clearing the Travel section will help you map areas faster, and also unlock the bookworm railway system that will allow you to move more easily between certain parts of the library.

Besides section buffs, you'll also be able to learn all kinds of useful attacks and skills by finding specific books in the shelves, reading them and carrying them in your messenger bags. The more books you carry, the stronger your character will be, and the abilities each book will grant you will be on theme with the book, it's literary genre or one of its tropes: carrying with you a bestiary will allow you to quickly identify the weak points of monsters you've met before, a book with an enemies to lovers trope will allow you to turn a monster into a temporary ally that will fight alongside you, a botany book in your bag will let you gather medicinal herbs growing in the library, and carrying a potions book will allow you to prepare healing potions (more effective than just herbs), etc.

Not everyone believes the library can be saved, which is why during your expeditions your mission is not only to kill monsters, but also to rescue books and bring them to the new library. Since getting books out is one of your main priorities, starting your runs with your satchels nearly full of books that grant you useful abilities won't be very efficient, so you'll need to decide how many books you want to bring back with you to the library during each run.

Fighting monsters is dangerous, and sometimes you get hurt, but also, sometimes books get hurt, which why after some runs you might need to stop by your workshop to repair any damaged books. The hides of certain monsters are very sturdy, so using them to rebind books will make them more durable.

There is no respawning in this game. If your librarian dies inside the library, the next librarian that ventures inside might eventually find their body. If you're close to death and you have a particular book from the Travel section in your bags, you'll be able to use it to summon a bookwork that will take you quickly and safely back to the entrance with whatever books are currently in your bag.

You love your library, and you are determined to save it, armed with the greatest weapon in the world: knowledge (and a sword), even if it's one book at a time.

#viwwr #videogames i wish were real #videogames #video games #writeblr #writers on tumblr #concepts #game design #roguelike games #libraries #books #finished writing and proofreading this 8 minutes before posting time oopsie

[devsgames]

Skyrim's late-game power-fantasy-creep is so funny even by fantasy standards. Like, it's hilarious how it feels like it completely steamrolls everything else. By the end of the game you're:

the Chosen One

dragonslayer

Archmage of the only magic college in the kingdom

leader of a group of werewolf paladins (or alternatively a literal Vampire Lord)

vampire slayer

minor nobility of literally every county in the kingdom (and one not in the kingdom)

high ranking soldier of a faction of the civil war

personal conduit and champion for like a dozen various deities and gods

leader of an ancient and forgotten dragon-slaying warband

master of the thieves guild

leader of a group of serial killers

protector of the entire kingdom

member of a bard's college

Like imagine a person existing that had all these titles and also the actual lived experience to back it up.

#thoughts #blog #skyrim #game design #narrative design

[ganondoodle]

rough concept for the unique boss within the deku-tree (required for the quest to repair the mastersword; boss name is a placeholder)

(totk rewritten project)

#ganondoodles #zelda #art #ganondoodles rewrites totk #totk #loz #game design #? #took me longer than i wanted ... as always lmao #perspective is a little fucky so the size of the boss seems way too small bgdkfldjljl #thought about a mushroom bug at first #but cherry trees dont tend to get alot of bugs as pests(?) #so i went for some worm thingy #with miasma hands and eyeball shrooms bc why not #design might not be the best but its the just a concept after all

[magpieandpossum]

I'm already about 110% in love with these rough draft character sprites....

these are all unshaded, and will probably be continued to be edited, but I just wanted to share to get feedback! both garak and quark have alternate outfits as well ^^

#is it obvious that kira and bashir are my favorites... #doing game art makes me so happy #doing game coding makes me 😡 #star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #star trek fanart #deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #game #design #video games #game development #game design #game dev