Lessons from today's prototyping meetup #gamedesign 1. Build the middle of your game first. Can you play your own game for 40-60 minutes? Then figure out how to teach that. Tutorials reveal the known fun, they don't find the fun. - ThreadSky

danctheduck.bsky.social • 108 days ago

Lessons from today's prototyping meetup #gamedesign

1. Build the middle of your game first. Can you play your own game for 40-60 minutes? Then figure out how to teach that. Tutorials reveal the known fun, they don't find the fun.

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danctheduck.bsky.social•108 days ago

2. Spend your UX budget on polishing UI screens based on the player's frequency of interaction. If there's a stats screen that is rarely seen, don't put 90% of your time into it. Maybe spend more effort on the thing people do 99% of the time.

danctheduck.bsky.social•108 days ago

3. Make UI flows punctuated by Calls to Action (CTA). On a screen, what do you want a player to do next? Make a big ass affordance (a button!) for the primary or alternative next step.

danctheduck.bsky.social•108 days ago

4. If you have 100 features, which ones are delightful? Watch for when players express emotion. Center those moments. In the UX flows. In the information hierarchy. In the pacing. In the loops.

danctheduck.bsky.social•108 days ago

5. A casual game for everyone is hard to sell. Since you are competing against all the other wildly successful casual games for everyone and this audience does not look for alternatives.

danctheduck.bsky.social•108 days ago

6. Keeping your game project as a hobby is a totally valid choice.

danctheduck.bsky.social•108 days ago

7. Senior designers often give solutions that reflects what they would do if they took over the project and had to ship it. But that comes from their skills and aesthetics. When processing, identify the root issue raised. But also recenter on your aesthetic pillars. What game do want to make?

chevyray.dev•108 days ago

i wish more devs would encourage this. game dev is a pretty great hobby and when the need for profit is removed from the process, i love seeing what people do without those shackles

originalbigdan.bsky.social•108 days ago

Awesome thread!

feralvintage.bsky.social•108 days ago

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fletcherstudios.bsky.social•107 days ago

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