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Design roundup #2.
Posted by The Management in design on October 30, 2009
Things are really hectic here, so it’s a perfect time to take the easy way out by posting some more links!
- Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation – A really interesting article with some hard-data on social cooperation and how to encourage and maintain it at various scales.
- No More Wrong Turns – A great overview of the tools that any level designer should have in his/her toolbox.
- Imaginary Friends – MMOs might already serve as stand-ins for many real-world social interactions, but here’s why parasocial interactions can be very important for single player games (especially dating sims and titles with episodic content).
What made those old, 2D platformers so great?
Posted by The Management in design on May 13, 2009
A little while ago I dug into Scary Girl for not being a very fun game. This brought up some discussion about what actually makes a good 2D platformer, so I decided to expand on the topic. Below is a list of what I see as three common aspects of many classic platforming titles. These point are not the only things that made those games great, but they’re a shared base that appears again and again.
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Hi, my name’s Radek Koncewicz, and I work as a videogame design consultant. I'm also the creative lead of Incubator Games, a small development studio I started with a few former coworkers.
I think a lot about videogames, and write a lot of it down too, so I figured why not make it public?
If you'd like to contact me, drop me a line at themanagement@significant-bits.com.