18 February 2006
Casual Game Design » Game design at Casuality Europe
# Make it really hard.
# Have a dozen mediocre game modes instead of one good one.
# Make it a 600 MB download that requires two next generation video cards and 4GB RAM.
# Price your game at $35 or $3.50 and sell only from your myspace homepage.
# Use the right mouse button.
# Give it a terrible name or theme.
# Award low scores.
# Expect users to read.
# Make it challenging and cerebral.
# Ignore what everyone else says about your game.
19 January 2006
Only a Game: The Rituals of Alea
Games designers have a tendency to overlook or dismiss alea (chance), although in cultural terms it is a highly significant class of games. The global video games industry has around $28,000 million turnover, whereas the global gambling industry is worth a staggering $1,098,000 million, forty times as much.
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