Author: Dan Felder

Dan Felder here. I'm a Game Designer and Game Director, formerly working at many different studios including Riot, Blizzard, and EA. I specialize in system design, narrative, RPGs, card-games and turn-based strategy titles.
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Design 101: Design Goals

Welcome! Hi, welcome to Design 101. Like many people in the industry, I get asked a lot of questions about game design. Sometimes it’s from friends, sometimes it’s from their kids, sometimes it’s even from new students of my former teachers. Lately I’ve been answering a lot of the same questions over and over again, […]

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Improving Rock, Paper, Scissors

So, I run design teams as a hobby. It started in college, a way to simulate the professional production environments and practice our skills. We used to sink 30 hours a week into designing various board games, card games, tabletop rpgs and more. Now I’m in the industry and working professionally, but I still love […]

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Back from GDC!

Just finished my time at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. I had an extraordinary time. I spent about half of it exhibiting for Faeria and the other half wandering the great vastness of the convention. It felt great to share the product of a year’s worth of work with so many people, […]

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Résumé Updated

It’s been a year since I brought my Résumé up to date. Now the linked document in the About page is fresh and ready for visitors. If you’d like more details on projects, feel free to shoot me a request for details via email.

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Design Podcast – Remaking Magic

If you’ve met me, you know I love talking about game design. A podcast all about it seems like a natural extension. Remaking Magic is a podcast all about the design lessons we can learn from Magic the Gathering; and it’s of special interest to those working on card games or even fan-created Magic the […]

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Beginnings of a Portfolio

Just started putting rules and materials for our gaming projects onto a central website. The questionably named Exploding Flamingo (probably should change that) projects are available for perusal as well as play if you click those bold letters. Included are our popular Spelltacular! card game, the current alpha build of Raelic’s Adventure as well as other titles […]

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GDC, Ho!

Looking forward to my first GDC! Finally I won’t have to catch all the greatness via the GDC Vault. If you’re reading this, hope to see you there! Yes, even if you have no interest in games. Trust me, this stuff’s fascinating.