GameDev • Game Wisdom • 8 мая 2024 г. 9:26

The Difficulty of Horror Design Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this somewhat spooky video, I’m talking about the challenges of making a horror game and three trends that have ta...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 8 апреля 2024 г. 10:15

Why We Idly Obsess Over Numbers Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this roundtable talk, our panel discussed the addictive nature of idle design: why do we love watching numbers go up, wh...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 1 апреля 2024 г. 22:57

The Art of Interesting Choices in Game Design Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this critical thought, it’s all about creating interesting choices and skills in your game, and why...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 13 марта 2024 г. 9:42

How Action Design Changed Over the 2010’s Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this critical thought, I talked about how action and reflex-driven design changed and evolved over the 2...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 3 марта 2024 г. 0:14

The Game Industry Unicorns of Baldur’s Gate 3 and Elden Ring Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For today’s critical thought, I talked about the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 a...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 21 февраля 2024 г. 23:38

The Joy and Pain of Game Mastery Josh Bycer [email protected] As I was writing my shooter book, it meant revisiting some of the better shooters of the past 10 years, and another playthrough of Doom Eternal. Eternal is a game that you either love o...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 15 февраля 2024 г. 22:32

Daylight Basement Studio Developer Interview Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this Perceptive Podcast, I’m talking with Christopher Bischke from Daylight Basement Studio to discus...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 20 января 2024 г. 23:10

Endgame Lessons of Live Service Design Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this critical thought, the recent complete downvote of Diablo 4’s endgame frames our talk about the importa...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 24 декабря 2023 г. 20:49

Game-Wisdom Best of 2023 Award Show Josh Bycer [email protected] It’s time again to pick my favorite games that I played in 2023. If you missed last year’s format change, I’ve switched from a top ten to a best of for each categor...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 6 декабря 2023 г. 21:44

Indie Showcase 181 Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" The latest showcase studying and showing off a variety of indie games. 0:00 Intro 00:14 Gunlocked 2:28 Necrobouncer 4:16 Recon Control 6:...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 29 октября 2023 г. 23:06

Next Fest Favs Parts 1-3 Josh Bycer [email protected] I’m falling behind on posting videos, so instead of doing one a day, we’re doing a multi for looking at the first next fest of 2023 and my favorite demos from the event.   w...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 15 сентября 2023 г. 18:37

Game-Wisdom Game Jam Winners Josh Bycer [email protected] width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" The Game-Wisdom Game Jam is over, and while we’ll be talking to the judges about it on Saturday, it’s time to annou...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 27 февраля 2023 г. 21:15

Game-Wisdom’s Best of 2022 Awards for Deckbuilders Josh Bycer [email protected] Deckbuilders remain one of my favorite roguelike-styled games, and we had four very different ones that I wanted to give a shoutout to for 2022. Honorable Menti...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 25 февраля 2023 г. 1:11

Game-Wisdom’s Best of 2022 For Beat-em-Ups Josh Bycer [email protected] Surprisingly, while there weren’t a lot of deck builders compared to previous years, we had quite a decent variety of beat-em-up games for 2022. And here are my to...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 15 февраля 2023 г. 13:29

Game-Wisdom’s Best of 2022 Awards for Strategy/Tactical Games Josh Bycer [email protected] For this part of awards, these are my favorite games that either fall into the strategy or tactical genres. It Could Have Been a Contender: Dwarf For...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 5 февраля 2023 г. 23:25

Game-Wisdom’s Best of 2022 Awards for Best Roguelike Josh Bycer [email protected] 2022 saw not as many roguelikes compared to previous years, most likely thanks to the bullet heaven craze. Still, we got some interesting takes off of action r...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 30 января 2023 г. 17:37

Game-Wisdom 2022 Awards for Best RPGs Josh Bycer [email protected] We now turn to the RPG genre, that also helped while I was writing my book on RPG design. We have some very different takes that go from being old school, to not-so-old school desi...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 28 января 2023 г. 2:21

The Game-Wisdom 2022 Awards for Best Bullet Heaven Games Josh Bycer [email protected] In a surprising twist from 2022, a new sub-genre found its way to dominate the landscape with the Vampire Survivor likes, Bullet Heaven, auto shooter, whatever w...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 21 января 2023 г. 21:38

Game-Wisdom’s Best Shooters of 2022 Awards Josh Bycer [email protected] For this entry in my best-of-series, I’m talking about my favorite shooters and what games had the best gunplay this year. There were so many games this time that...... читать далее

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GameDev • Game Wisdom • 8 января 2023 г. 23:24

Game-Wisdom’s Most Original Games of 2022 Awards Josh Bycer [email protected] For this pick of my favorite games of 2022, it’s the games that did something different compared to everyone else. It Could be A Contender Award: Card Shark...... читать далее

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