Design Tips: Where to Lose Balance

It’s nice for games to have balance, but you’d be surprised at how many times it’s unnecessary.

Design Discussion: Bugs in Hidden Role Games, Part 3

Even more bugs in hidden role games.

I go through some forms of push-your-luck mechanics and what makes them tick.

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

I look at three mechanics that can define a large number of games and other mechanics.

A personal exploration of why I make games.

Tiebreakers exist in almost every game, so in this article I talk a bit about what different forms they take.

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

I believe that games should ramp up in some way, and here I explain why.