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Vermanubis
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Vermanubis
@Vermanubis
Composer & game dev I talk about jRPGs, Metroidvanias & fighting games 1/2 of @ghosthanddev
가입일 Ocak 2011
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Tying this back to the OP, design is slow-growing a tree from a seed, not grafting branches from other trees onto yours
This consistency creates a crushing level of constraint
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If you used long cutscenes prior to item acquisition without that "design lineage" you'd just annoy people and waste their time
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Thought of a good example to make this a little more lucid
consider opening chests in Ocarina of Time:
Vermanubis@Vermanubis
When people exclaim "bad design" about something, that’s usually another way of saying that the person encountered an inconsistency with an expectation formed about the game early on, either by assumption or something the game communicated
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More than anything, it's an organizational and planning task just as much, if not more, than a creative one
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All this to say, to the OP's point, design is so often less coming up with fun ideas, but figuring out how to grow an entire game from one or two foundational ideas
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When people exclaim "bad design" about something, that’s usually another way of saying that the person encountered an inconsistency with an expectation formed about the game early on, either by assumption or something the game communicated
Tynan Sylvester@TynanSylvester
It's underappreciated how little freedom you have while designing a game. You can't just make what you want. You have to to make what works, and you don't get to choose that.
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The howitzer alone looks insane, but just wait til you see what it turns into
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In this case, the slam dunk stuns & launches enemies, which sets up the divekick to drag enemies back down
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Specials here are equipable to each direction (kind of like specials in Smash), and each one's got different properties
The idea is to find clever ways to synergize different specials to "cheese" really OP enemies
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