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buddyfrost.bsky.social
Game designer at Frost Flame Games. (he/any)
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Does anyone else get excited when they get new dev tools from the team?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with trying to design procedural games is that you often stare down the maw of infinity

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Pavé has landed. Time to get some boardgames into homes.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Bad match three idea: A screen full of mindrot videos such as slime mushing, subway surfers etc. Get three of a kind and they mercifully disappear.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes card games have a "zero sum of fun" problem than can be difficult to overcome

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite wincon in TCGs when playing is making people concede in despair even though I know it is bad for that to exist in games. The game designer in me really fights the part of me that is a little shit.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

What is the most arcane dev tool experience you have had? For me I am currently building decks of cards by dialing in parts of them by referencing alphanumeric entity IDs.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

What is the best song off Rumors and why is it Dreams?

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Something something card game design, something something hard.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Game design is thinking really hard about something then finding out how wrong you are in reality.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Bad Match Three Game Idea: Gems. Gems never change. Scour the post apocalyptic waste lands for three matching gems to score points.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

One part of card game design I can't replicate is having broken cards in your history that you constantly reference in newer "fixed" versions.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Card game players from one game reviewing cards from another game might just be my favourite form of content.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Bad Match Three Game Idea: Fuck it, the gems themselves are micro-transactions. $5 a gem.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Currently fighting the 1000 unique bowls of porridge problem of procedural game design.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out the downside of trying to make your digital card game have lots of meaningful choices is that it makes programming a computer opponent a nightmare.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Card game rule writing often has to be as precise as programing languages. So anyway my engineers basically made me a programming language for designing mechanics in the database.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

One of the reasons MTG can be confusing is that they keep overhauling the rules and wordings to make it less confusing.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if the thing that made us able to sit and fish all day for survival is the thing that makes us like gambling. This is still a post about card game design.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Bad Match Three Game Idea: Recursion When you click a gem you must play a standard match three game inside it. When you complete that game, it resolves into a coloured gem depending on how you did. Then match three of those.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like current card game design is about making you feel like you are doing broken things. And while that might seem exciting, I think it is daunting for new players to have to teach them a how to play a new game, then teach them that actually that isn't how you will be playing it at all.

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Bad Match Three Game Idea: Get three fascists in a line and they disappear. If only.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

How much "this is actually awful" is acceptable in a game and why do card games that people spend a lot of money on get away with the most of it?

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments