Showing posts with label rpg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rpg. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Tryhard devlog - about the setting, game world, and worldbuilding

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Now that we’ve announced our upcoming game Tryhard  (...  WISHLIST ON STEAM? ) I can talk more openly about our design and development proce...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

New game announcement: "Tryhard" + "A Sportslike Manifesto"

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Tryhard is an upcoming sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand. We're still quite early in development. But for...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

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I've written previously about murder in Skyrim , epic Skyrim fan game Enderal , and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City . ...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

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I'm playing a giant Skyrim "total conversion" mod called Enderal . It does a lot of interesting things but also less-than-good...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Tactics games in 2020: game design notes about Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics

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I finished playing two 2020 RPG tactics games recently: Horizon's Gate and Gears Tactics. I've also written at length about Invisibl...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Grinding as repetition as savefiles as insistence

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In "Portraits and Repetition", Gertrude Stein argues that repetition is better understood as "insistence": "....
Thursday, May 31, 2018

On the indie story RPG's use of "encounter-space" and Fortune-499

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This post spoils some gameplay systems / moments in Fortune-499 and its general themes, but none of the specific plot events. I just fini...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The joy of learning how to freeze to death

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This post spoils some gameplay systems in The Long Dark . I still remember the first time I played Minecraft, back before the quests an...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Open world level design: spatial composition and flow in Breath of the Wild

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So, like much of game dev Twitter, I too saw Matt Walker's Twitter thread that summarized a CEDEC 2017 talk on how Nintendo built th...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Toward an honesty of pixels: on Final Fantasy 12 HD and Quake 3 Arena

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combined screenshots from Final Fantasy 12 (PS2, 2006) and Final Fantasy 12 HD (PS4 Pro, 2017) You either love or you hate Final Fantasy...
Friday, August 28, 2015

On "The Loch" and anti-busybody small open world games

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The Loch is a 2013 Scottish fishing RPG by Mitch Alexander. In it, you "fight" fish in turn-based JRPG battles symbolizing the...