The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Links to Games Designers and Tech Artists, Enjoy
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List of Games Designers - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nx8i6YpMI_KTuWxyiy7AA4kfigLy69LwMctlkyBCluY/edit#gid=0
Can you add a link to any Games Designers or Tech Artist websites, thanks. Any forums, theorists, practitioners, speakers, critiques and designers at the forefront that are worth a mention.
Here is some information to start.
Interesting review on games mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqo
Great practitioner - Tesla Dev, well worth watching his Youtube channel, amazing guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPglWtCjF3g
Can you add a link to any Games Designers or Tech Artist websites, thanks. Any forums, theorists, practitioners, speakers, critiques and designers at the forefront that are worth a mention.
Here is some information to start.
Some theorist type peeps
Jane McGonigal
David Perry: Are games better than life?
Hourences, his work is amazing - http://www.hourences.com/
Polycount Games Design Blog - http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Game_designInteresting review on games mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqoGreat practitioner - Tesla Dev, well worth watching his Youtube channel, amazing guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPglWtCjF3gHourences work -
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Game Maker's Toolkit - 5 Bits of Good Game Design from 2015
I like a lot of the videos in Game Maker's Toolkit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw
The doom one was especially interesting to me.
Tefel UE4 programmer and currently working on Archeo (strategy game).
https://www.youtube.com/user/ArcheoProject/videos
As for theorists, practitioners, speakers these two are worth brushing up on
Jesse Schell - http://www.jesseschell.com/
https://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life
David Perry http://dperry.com/
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_perry_on_videogames?language=en
Strange, I can post this. Well wanted to link 2 of my articles
Naming items and value from scarcity
About Playertypes and User comittment
Tom Looman - https://unreal-engine-4.zeef.com/tom.looman
Loads of great tutorials on a range of subjects.
Also, Extra Credits - So You Want To Be a Game Designer - Career Advice for Making Games
http://roseburgh.co.uk/wp/
http://www.johnsto.co.uk/design/
like, surely someone seriously interested would hang out at a forum focused on that?
This thread is to help anyone trying to get into the dark arts of becoming a Games Designer. Please post a link to any you know.
Thanks everyone for your links, sorry its been a while. I have made a list of everyone you suggested and added a few, feel free to add more links. I will post the link to the top of this thread. I hope it helps, enjoy.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nx8i6YpMI_KTuWxyiy7AA4kfigLy69LwMctlkyBCluY/edit#gid=0