Design Tip: What is your game doing?

I recently watched a very good video on the youtube channel you’ve probably heard of: Game Maker’s Toolkit. It was… Read more Design Tip: What is your game doing?

Design Tip: Make Turns Different

Try to avoid situations in your games where players might end up making the same choices.

It can be a real pain when players have to make meaningful decisions based on another player’s meaningless decision.

Every decision in a hidden role game has to follow a lot of guidelines to really work.

Players need to know what they’re getting into before they start playing your game.

I talk about some tools and pieces I use when I make physical protoypes.

You should give your players more perfect information than you think you should.

A discussion of three of the types of hidden roles games commonly seen.

How do you make it so your game gets more exciting as it goes on? I look into it in this article.

The three pillars of rules writing: thoroughness, navigability, and clarity. Here’s a discussion of them and some suggestions for how to use them.