the game design experience
Looking at other people’s C# code for Unity, I kept seeing this bizarre usage of if: if (object) { …} where object was a real object, not a bool instance. This is a JavaScript kind of usage, where there is a big (perceived) mess about object … [Read more]
A quick note on the state of C# static variable instances in Unity3d. So I just discovered that static properties of classes extending MonoBehaviour on level reload may get reloaded or not, depending on circumstances. The problem is this: you … [Read more]
Let me talk a bit how I started developing the idea and the following design of Tonzilla, my first serious game that will be published this fall. Goals I had two goals in mind: my first goal was that I wanted people to express themselves more … [Read more]
In this episode we are with Urustar, the pure indie game creators from Genoa who recently organized Game Happens! a workshop and a networking event focusing on the economic growth of the video game industry in Italy, especially in Genoa and in the … [Read more]
Just a note on a simple problem with Unity 2D and small sprites’ physics. Problem I could not get my 2 pixel by 2 activist demonstrating in the scene to collide with buildings when working in 2D. By using the 3D box collider and locking rotations … [Read more]
This is the fifth part of a voyage in Unity 2D development, where we document in video the design and development of a simple strategic game reproducing the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; here we make a more general discussion of grids in games. If … [Read more]
In this episode we are with Thomas van den Berg who develops Kingdom, which is a cool game online (“A minimalist atmospheric exploration/strategy game”) which is now searching funding on Kickstarter to further its development. … [Read more]
In this episode we are with We Are Müesli, an amazing Italian independent duo based in Milan, made up of visual designer Claudia Molinari and creative writer Matteo Pozzi. They have been moving between art, storytelling and video games, and are well … [Read more]
In this episode we are with Francesco Ficarelli of Heartbit Interactive, an Italian indie game development software house; we talk about their Doom & Destiny game past and future, and also about game design & storytelling. … [Read more]
This is an unusual post for Design a Game: instead of writing / talking about technologies and games done by others, this time it is the curator and the maintainer of this blog that are releasing a project, Genio: Genio is a fun approach to history, … [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.
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