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Last week I started probramming my upcoming game, for now it is called "Project Adventure", it's an adventure game inspired in Civilization 4 exploration mini-game and Princess Maker character development and story mechanics. I plan to have many characters in it, and various story arcs, like in the Princess maker games, and make the relationship between characters affect the game story. In Princess Maker you tried to be someone (or rather make someone) and even get married, in my game, there will be something similar, but different, the concept is the same, but the mechanics will change greatly. One of the main elements… Continue reading

It was just a matter of time until I gave my personal opinion on this subject. Millions of times has this problem been discussed before among game designers and game fanatics, and now it's my turn to voice my opinion. I think that Art is just an expression, some people use it to refer to something that is beautiful for them, and also to express that it is above all other things. The people who who use this expression are people who do not have contact with "museum" art, but that will call "art" things that seem above normal things and… Continue reading

Google Keyword tool can give you an insight about what people are looking for, this can help you to understand what is on people's minds, I wanted to know about what's on casual players mind by searching for keywords related to "Casual game", this is what I found (Results are tailored to English, United States):

1. "Casual game": The search volume for this one in March was only 18,000, with an average of 40,000 per month. This shows that people are almost not looking for Casual games on Google! (compared to other numbers), quite a surprise for me. Compare this number with

There are games that do not help your brain to exercise its faculties, for example, compare the game of chess with pachinko or Peggle, the game of chess allows for strategies, tactics, training of memory, it can be a much more brain engaging experience, but Peggle is not only simple, it does not require any form of thought to be played, it may be entertaining to watch, but its also mindless to play. Continue reading

I'm thinking about what my next game will be about, I'm not sure exactly how the game will be yet, but I want to make something that somehow makes the player experience being loved by someone, not just the love from a pet, or the love from a friend, but a bigger form of love, and since there are many ways to show love I want to focus on a particular aspect of love: Self sacrifice. Why make game about self-sacrifice and love?. Most games of today are too shallow, focusing on things like finding objects, or simply matching colors, for… Continue reading