#game-mechanics

Sustainable blockchain play-to-earn games are games that keep growing with a user base, increase earnings for users, generate a return on investment for investors, and incentivize development.

With every win now counting to the focus, competition is definitely stiffer in Splinterlands. Now many might consider the new focus abilities more like a stiff middle finger and some may think it is just

This title is as boring as it sounds. So I will try to keep this short and bitter. In my previous post I said I have no interest in renting towards Gold 1, but as usual something changes and all of a sudden

It's been a while, and I haven't been the most diligent about keeping up on my work. I was finishing up my MFA thesis and I just didn't have a lot of energy thanks to some personal stuff, but I think it's

So, here I am, a game designer talking about game mechanics. Hopefully nobody got their hopes up too high, because I'm going to give an answer that seems really weird, given what you'd expect: I don't

As people may be aware, I've been working on my Hammercalled Roleplaying Game system for almost a year now, and I've been trying to make it as good a core for playing in any setting as you can find anywhere.

The first tabletop game I ever seriously played was Shadowrun's third edition. I'm not sure why I chose it over the fourth edition, which had recently come out (I suspect that the setting clicked with

One of the issues that I've seen with a lot of modern games is a problem that I call rules fatigue. It occurs when a player has too many rules to comfortably remember or quickly reference, and as a result

One of the things for Hammercalled (the setting as well as the game for once) is that I really want to have strong ways to tie the players into the world and into their characters. In the core setting

One of the things that Hammercalled allows me to do, if I pull it off right, is to allow people to have a really flexible character creation process. Because of this, I want to try my hand at making a

Hammercalled, Talents, and Mechanical Spheres One of the things that I feel strongly about in games is the role that mechanics play in drawing out a narrative. They exist to resolve conflict, so whenever

When you're designing a game, you want to make sure that you have an understanding of what exactly you are doing–games are to a certain extent learning opportunities, but they are also decision machines.

As the Hammercalled Roleplaying Game nears its first alpha release (and probably a delay, because my planning may have predicted many more effective working hours than I get outside weekends on the weekdays),

I've mentioned using the concepts of energy and reach to achieve balance in a roleplaying game before, but as it was part of a series on archetypes I don't think I really had time to explain what I meant.