Max Did It » Game Design http://www.max-did-it.com Game Design, Coding, Graphics and Audio Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US Letting Go Of Game Design Features When is it a good idea to follow through with a game design idea, investing the time to implement, balance and create assets? And when should you acknowledge that a feature is not working the way you had hoped, and might even be detrimental to the game? I had to make this decision recently for [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2013/02/15/letting-go-of-game-design-features/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letting-go-of-game-design-features Using Heat Maps To Improve Track Design Employing useful metrics like heat maps can really make a huge difference when creating good level design. In the last days, I have learned once more that some features can only be implemented in a meaningful way once you are able to visualize how people play your game. This is also the first time I [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2013/02/04/using-heat-maps-to-improve-track-design/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-heat-maps-to-improve-track-design Gamedesign Review of Satellite I have already posted an article about how Satellite performed when it comes to views and ad revenue, this time I want to analyse the game itself. I don’t want to look only at the good things, but also, maybe even more, at the things that haven’t worked as intended. In the end, I find [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2012/12/21/gamedesign-review-of-satellite/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gamedesign-review-of-satellite Planning The User Interface Flow Yesterday, I had posted a link to my Facebook page for an early game prototype. People could play the (very) early version of the game and I could see whether the idea is working or not. First of all, thanks to everybody who took the time to test the game and special thanks to everybody [...]

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]]> http://www.max-did-it.com/index.php/2012/10/11/planning-the-user-interface-flow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=planning-the-user-interface-flow John Cleese On Creativity This is a very interesting talk by Monty Python’s John Cleese on the topic of creativity, which I found in this post on drawn.ca a while ago. Now, John Cleese has been working in the entertainment business for about 50 years, so I’d say he knows a little more about creativity than you do, pal, [...]

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