Teddy Lee (maker of My First First Quantum Translocater and other popular Flash games) gives us his take on puzzle game design.
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May 232011
Ted Lauterbach, creator of the eerie puzzle game, suteF, answers our questions about puzzle game design.
Apr 262011
As part of our series of interviews on puzzle game design, we asked Rob Jagnow about his approach. Jagnow is the founder of Lazy 8 Studios, and the designer behind Cogs, the steampunk-themed sliding-tile puzzle game.
Mar 232011
In this second part of analyzing Desktop Dungeons, we look at how choices are given meaning not only through their complexity, but also through the role they play in structuring an experience.
Mar 032011
This is the first part of an in-depth look at the design of Desktop Dungeons, the South African game that won the Excellence for Design Award at the IGF. In this part, we look at the player actions, choices, and tension.
Jan 292011
South African game developers share what skills they think are important for budding game developers.
Two things are key to becoming a great game designer: making games, and playing games. In this article, Rodain Joubert extracts and explains three game design lessons from playing Dungeon Crawl that revolves around difficulty, providing meaningful decisions, and removing tedium from the game interface.
Feb 082010
Okay, so today I’m going to be lazy (I’ll accept the explanation that I did this to save all our readers time too) and lob a whole bunch of stuff in this post. Not because all of this isn’t particularly important, but just because I either somehow missed it or it all appeared magically over [...]
Jun 012009
This article originally appeared in Dev.Mag Issue 16, released in August 2007. Put yourself in this situation: you’re an enthusiastic gamer, you’ve played your fair share of the latest releases, you humbly proclaim yourself supreme overlord of Counter-Strike, and you regularly peruse your copy of the latest ‘zines. For all intents and purposes, some may [...]
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