… we’ve found a place for radio in a world full of televisions
It may be that videogames are a way to create more players, and then convert them… 6 Board Games That Video Gamers Should Play
Also, from a game design point of view, “When you buy a board game what you play is the original concept precisely as it was in the designer’s head”.
P.S. See this post on how book shops can live in the age of digital books: What are bookshops for today?
Here http://www.ticonblu.it/thesystem you can play a game Pino and myself developed in JavaScript + CSS3 for “modern” browsers i.e. HTML5.
Works fine on the iPad, and its ideal when played by several human players. The game design is not mine, comes from a board game, and the porting / transformation is not complete yet, but checking this game could be a practical way of learning the basics of game prototyping using very simple JavaScript.
This game is particularly simple as it is turn-based; now I’m creating a very simple JavaScript framework for real time games – will publish that too soon.
This is from “Engineering Emergence” by Joris Dormans, a free online PDF from one of the authors of Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design – a should read for any learning game designer.
Something that indie game designers are capable of doing is taking unlikely, dead games genres and giving them new life. Cabrera Brothers tried just this by releasing a new text (yes, text) adventure in a new format here:
http://www.cabrerabrothers.com/
We’ve briefly reviewed the game in our podcast here:
(Euro Gamer Podcast episode 2)
Werner Herzog as narrator in Grizzly Man:
And what haunts me is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed I discovered no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.’ [Read more…]
Design A Game is a site on game design and development. It is curated by Pietro Polsinelli, who is a game designer and developer. See all his works here.
Here you find the site dedicated to Pietro's book on applied games: Explaining With Games.
