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Game design

Resource Management – Optimizing the Fun

In most games, players are tasked with managing some form of resources. These resources can take many forms. It’s not just money and ammo, but also health, stamina or troops – basically everything that can be obtained and spent.

Entertainment

Red Barrels – and other game design tropes

In this article I’ll explore why red barrels are being used this way and give more examples on tropes within game design.

Victors Fresh Fish - Borderlands style Chest

Entertainment

Why games cheat the player

Games often cheat the player for the sake of creating a better experience – of course players might not see it that way if they catch the game cheating them.

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Try our Idea generator

Try our Idea Generator and get some much needed inspiration for your concepts – Use our random idea generator to quickly come up with concepts for a game to practice and refine your skills! Try it out below!