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Game Designer’s Notes #6: Catch-up systems
Everybody hates games when they’re so far behind that it’s not even funny. How do good games avoid such situations?
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6 words you’ve probably forgotten were short forms
In the age of tweets and Snapchat, words like napkins have become naps and words like delicious, delish. But what words were shortened before social media came along?
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The real definition of success (as opposed to the fake inspirational ones)
Before you ask how to be successful, you need to know what success is. So what is it, then?
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Game Designer’s Notes #5: Paths to victory
From battle to trade to building, there’s usually more than one way to win a game. (Or, as they say, skin a cat. Ugh.) But why do game designers do that?
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Have Your Poor: a short story
Have Your Poor is a literary fictional short story about politics, the poor, and family.
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Game Designer’s Notes #4: Types of victories
Chess. Catan. Taboo. Exploding Kittens. Each game has a different victory condition, but how many kinds of victories are there?
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New rules for the terms of service
No one reads the terms of service, yet they contain some important, and dangerous, stuff. So how can they be made more readable?
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Game Designer’s Notes #3: Types of luck
Dice rolling and flipping coins aren’t the only two types of luck there are. But what are the other types, and how do they affect game design?
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Comparing Swift Playgrounds with Human Resource Machine
Recently, two games have been released that teach coding: Swift Playgrounds and Human Resource Machine. But what are the differences? And which one is better?
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Game Designer’s Notes #2: Varying luck
Everyone loves it in games when the dice are on your side. But how much die rolling (or how little) should games have?
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