Posts tagged game design
Empathy for the Daemon, or are you a good simulator?
Mar 16th
Game designer Sid Meier, creator of the “Civilization” series of video games gave a talk recently called “The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong).” His main thesis was that game designer have to understand the player’s psychology when designing the gameplay elements and gave some examples from his games which violated player More >
Make Better Games by Reducing Interactivity
Jun 29th
Most people believe that interactivity is what separates games from other kinds of media, so how can you make games better by taking away that advantage? Back when we were creating the interface on BioShock, Ken was the one who always pushed for a simpler interface. The main method we used was to remove options More >