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Game Design and Theory
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Core Mechanics, Content Gating, Sandboxes, and Radical Change
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Do you like old school, traditional RPG play?
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Educational game
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Sample Design Documents
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Tetris inventory.
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Struggling with the idea of in-game purchases
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Please Help Us For 3D
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Process
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Third Person Class Based Tower Defense Shooter with Zombies.
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What kind of game should I make?
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Boallods
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How much content to put in a game?
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Political / social question
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Expand: An abstract RTS
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Dir3kt
13 years, 1 month ago
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What is your game development process?
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13 years, 1 month ago
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Creating a complete game design is overwhelming
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iPad strategy/sim that isn't FarmVille
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sunandshadow
13 years, 1 month ago
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About myself, golf bats and guns!
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13 years, 1 month ago
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Dreamscape
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Death-less punishment mechanic?
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Modifying The Character
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13 years, 1 month ago
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'Mum, Dad, I want to be a Game Designer'
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13 years, 1 month ago
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Where spells can mean chemistry
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13 years, 1 month ago
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Report: a study of social games from the first project I was involved.
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Hotkeys
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Stroppy Katamari
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MMO: How do you level?
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sunandshadow
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MMO with Discovery as Prime Content Advancement
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Caldtem
13 years, 1 month ago
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Help: Designing a Modular 3D Tile System
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DJDD
13 years, 1 month ago
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Seamless World vs Zoned World
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A Survey of Gamer Tendencies
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Zelda's Original Design Docs
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