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- 1. The 50 Games Every Game Designer Should Play By Paul Peterson @warewolf00
- 2. Who am I?
- 3. 23 years as a professional game designer
- 4. Designed many different kinds of games
- 5. What’s the point? • Think about games as you play them • Deconstruct games and examine the pieces • Apply the lessons you learn to your designs
- 6. Unimportant Details • Is it “fun?” • Is it “historically relevant?” • Is it “original?”
- 7. Backgammon Inclusion of a metagame element changes the course of the game
- 8. Artemis Players must coordinate efforts with wildly different game rules
- 9. Billionaire Banshee The role that prior knowledge can play in player interactions
- 10. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag How to make movement through an environment contextual Ship to ship combat
- 11. Cheating Moth Turning “cheating” into a mechanic
- 12. Braid How to hand the concept of time travel
- 13. Codenames Team based gameplay Communication with limited tools
- 14. Bushido Blade Changing the pacing of a genre
- 15. Colt Express How a game changes with audience
- 16. Clash Royale Engaging social system (guilds) Seamless efficient UI navigation Appointment based rewards
- 17. Contract Bridge Tracking the locations of game pieces Players self modifying the metagame
- 18. Dark Souls Building a game to serve a small segment of an audience
- 19. Dead of Winter Betrayer mechanic in a cooperative game
- 20. Diablo III (Console) Adapting a game to a platform effectively
- 21. Diplomacy Social interactions requiring betrayal
- 22. Eternal Using mechanics unique to your platform Selling collectible components
- 23. Dungeons and Dragons Guided storytelling Long-term gameplay over many sessions Players pick and choose what to include
- 24. Final Fantasy VX: A New Empire Making progression compelling Rewarding spend
- 25. Dixit How varying levels of communication affect gameplay
- 26. Gran Turismo 6 Realism as marketing Rewarding skill in single player
- 27. Dystopia Rising Real time gameplay Large scale, real world coordination
- 28. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Communication between players with different and limited information
- 29. Five Tribes Cooperative play with competitive ends Multiple paths to victory (point salad)
- 30. Kingdom of Loathing Making a “funny” game Repetition as gameplay Don’t need fancy graphics
- 31. Love Letter Creation of deep gameplay with few resources
- 32. Lego Dimensions Integration of technology with physical products
- 33. Mega Civilization Making a competitive game for many individual players
- 34. Minecraft Allowing players to generate content Cooperative creation
- 35. Monopoly How players modify games to suit their style of play
- 36. Monster Manor (Street Pass) Making players feel connected to strangers
- 37. Nyet The power of negative How to make shifting alliances work
- 38. Overwatch Environment construction in competitive games Team vs Team play Asymetric roles in action play
- 39. Pandemic Legacy Creating a crafted experience with twists How to change mechanics over time
- 40. Plants vs Zombies Pacing the introduction of mechanics
- 41. Patchwork Designing for two players, no more or less
- 42. Pokemon Go Mapping gameplay to real world locations Encouraging physical coordination
- 43. Poker How real world consequences affect gameplay Advantages of effective bluffing
- 44. Pokemon Moon Collecting as a goal Crafting groups to meet goals
- 45. The Quiet Year Reactive cooperative storytelling An evolving map
- 46. Rock Band 3 Gaming as a learning tool Cooperation between players with disparate skills
- 47. Robot Turtles Making engaging games for kids Gaming as education
- 48. Portal 2 Cooperative puzzle solving
- 49. Tak Making a game feel like it has existed forever Designing to fit a license
- 50. Silent Hill 2 How to scare players
- 51. Vast Competitive equal asymmetric gameplay
- 52. Starcraft Balancing three unique sides
- 53. Werewolf How a game can rely on a strong judge
- 54. A Tale in the Desert Ultimate sandbox Deep discoverable mechanics Large scale social mechanics
- 55. X-Wing Structured freeform movement Building block army construction
- 56. World of Warcraft Perfection over innovation Running a live service Episodic content creation