Self Aware Games has posted an insightful article about the game design process:<\/p>\n
\nBuilding a game is essentially a giant resource management game in itself. You\u2019re creating something – you\u2019ve usually got a deadline and a budget. Maybe a target audience, and a platform you\u2019re working on. As a lead designer, you have a handful of really important goals:<\/p>\n
1. You need to figure out what the game *is*.
\n 2. You need to get people psyched about making it.
\n 3. You need to make sure you can build it with the resources you have available.<\/p>\n– Admin<\/a> @ Self Aware Games\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
These principles could form the basis of a game — something like The Movies<\/a>, but set in a game design studio, where the goal of the game is to create a successful game.<\/p>\n
I remember reading, a couple of years ago, about a plug-in for The Sims<\/a> that allows your Sim character to play SimCity<\/a>. Now that’s meta<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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