Its finally ready! The first of our new year “one side-project released each month” resolution is officially available. Hostile Takeover is a 2 player 20-30 minute card game, where YOU are the balancing factor. Bid on auctioned cards to assemble your strategy while in an incredible test of skill. Steal bargains out from under your competitors that don’t […]

  The epic finale! This level shows both the epic brilliance of the core puzzle design formulae, as well as the somewhat out of place and inconsistent hardcore enemy platforming. There’s a lot to learn from in both cases.

You can check out the episode here. I love making Dungeons. They’re one of my greatest joys as a GM. However, for a long time, I found it difficult to keep the roleplay-focused gamers around my table engaged during them. Players that enjoy intrigue and character exploration can often feel uninvolved in a standard dungeon. […]

After my 10th GM’s Guide Podcast, I’ve gotten some people asking for examples of how I combine the Climactic Event Structure I talked about in episode 9 with the Four Act Event Structure I talked about in episode 10. I mentioned that you should put the two of them together after all. So here it […]

We run through the rest of world 1 in Jonathan Blow’s landmark masterpiece. We also discover my favorite puzzle in any puzzle game ever.

Hostile Takeover, the ultimate game of card evaluation I’m working on with Reuben Covington, is almost ready for widespread play. New Years resolution to get a publicly releasable game ready each month is still alive! Check back in a day or two for the game.

Link Here: http://danfelder.libsyn.com/ I’ve mentioned before that I came into game design because I feel it’s possibly the most powerful medium for creating incredible story experiences. A large part of this is how a player gets a chance to LIVE an adventure, not just listen to someone else describe someone else’s adventure. One thing I’ve […]

Recently I made a post dissecting the confusing and misleading parts of Mark Rosewater’s podcast on Choices vs. Options. Now I want to talk about the important idea in the podcast that I believe got obscured. Many game designers try to give players as much control over the game as possible. Let’s explore a rules […]

Mark Rosewater recently made a podcast explaining the differences between Choices and Options in his design terminology, and arguing for why he feels Choices are superior. I predict we’ll be dealing with the confusion from this podcast in the MTG design community for a while. Rosewater starts by defining Choices vs. Options in a useful way. […]

It’s Braid. The indie masterpiece that made the genre. Explore what makes it so intelligently designed.