Tag Archives: game design

Behind the Screens: Creature Design

[Dev Blog] I was super lucky enough to write a dev blog on the creatures in Crucible. I’ve posted the full article here for your convenience. I hope you enjoy reading! Hi everyone, I’m Aviva, and one of my game design responsibilities on the team is artificial intelligence (AI) design. I’m here to tell youContinueContinue reading “Behind the Screens: Creature Design”

Broken Age – Act I: Trust Between Puzzle-maker and Puzzle-solver

I played the first act of Broken Age this morning and I want to highlight a well designed puzzle in each character’s chapter. Vella: In the clouds (Meriloft), Vella’s goal is to get back down to the ground, and it becomes obvious that the only way to do this is to make one of theContinueContinue reading “Broken Age – Act I: Trust Between Puzzle-maker and Puzzle-solver”

Game Critique: Microsoft Studio Stacker card game

I usually like to talk about parts of games that are well designed, or how they could even be made better with simple improvements. But today, I’m going to critique one that I do not believe accomplished its design goals. I will also provide my solutions for the issues. Just before GDC 2019, Microsoft announcedContinueContinue reading “Game Critique: Microsoft Studio Stacker card game”

Games for School

I provide child care for a few families in my area, and recently one of the 5th grade kids was doing homework through a game. He told me it was algebra, and it mostly looked like fractions using sides of a die. It seemed that the goal was to drag a static die to theContinueContinue reading “Games for School”

Writing for tabletop RPGs

For Gen Con 2018, I was tasked with writing a guided mode for our game Apocrypha. Guided mode is very similar to any tabletop role playing game, just with the cards, and a guide leads the saints through the story by giving them omens when they take a turn (turn order is by player choice,ContinueContinue reading “Writing for tabletop RPGs”

Design Challenge: Dragon Age II Level Design Spec Sheet

I decided to do a level design challenge last month in which I had to modify a level in an existing game and here’s what I came up with. The attached image is how I would present my work to a team! I wanted the bulk of it to be easy to comprehend and beContinueContinue reading “Design Challenge: Dragon Age II Level Design Spec Sheet”