How to Measure a Game Mechanic or System

Today’s Critical Thought looks at game mechanics and how as a designer you need to understand just how much mileage you can get out of them.

Tags: Game Design, game mechanics, game systems, video game design

Josh Bycer

Indie Games For Everyone

The weekly indie game showcases highlight the many games I check out, and please reach out if you would like me to cover your’s. All games shown are either press keys or demo plays of indie games.

This is a double preview of Coven and Tarnished Blood, Coven was played with a retail key, Tarnished was played with a press key. Both games are in early access and what you see may not represent the current version.

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When it comes to paying for games or buying that must-have skin, there are plenty of options out there. But with so many ways to pay, how do you know which one’s the safest? Between credit cards, cryptocurrency, and digital wallets, each payment method has its pros and cons—and for gamers, security is super important. […]

What Makes Action Exciting?

For this roundtable, Tomo and I were joined by Tony to talk about making good feel in action and shooter design.

Is Modern Horror Still Scary?

For this not so spooky, spooky, critical thought, I want to talk about how modern horror games are not working for me and why a lot of them fail the test of being scary.

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