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## About gamemaking ##
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### CHALLENGING, NOT PUNISHING ###
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6UuRTjkKs
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1. CONSISTENT RULES
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- No arbitrary unstoppable death
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2. Player's skill involved
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- Can play around, not restart
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3. Usability of in-game tools
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- Players should be able to 'regret' their strategy and adjust.
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4. Comfortable control
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5. Make players overcome the challenge, not defeating them
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6. Let players have "aha" moment when they failed.
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- Make them hungry to retry with new strategies.
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- Some small things they've could done differently
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- e.g. "One-big-hit didn't worked, may I should've picked up high DPS one"
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### MORE DEPTH, LESS COMPLEXITY ###
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVL4st0blGU
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1. Memorise less!
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- Less burden to, even starting the game
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- Start with gentle learning curve, getting slowly steep
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- Intuitive UX (UI, control, ...)
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- Good tutorial = lessens complexity
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2. Intuitive!
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3. Calculations per second
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- reduce!
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4. Players have to know everything to even begin the play ### FAIL (irreducible complexity)
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- Make them get familiar with rules of the game
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- Dwarf Fortress failed this!
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### Lots of things players can play with (aka don't make them bored) ###
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- Combat, battle, building, mechanics, adventure, dungeon explore, spelunking
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- Not scaled; easy combat, tough combat, tedious combat, etc.
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### Achieving perfect imbalance ###
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e31OSVZF77w
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- Make sure no matter how you skilled, your playable character cannot be good at everything
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- Give players __wide pool of options__ to solve problem
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(kill the boss, defend their adobe, fast transportation, etc.)
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**_What feeling do you want to convey?_**
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### Always think WHY you want to add _something_ on the game ###
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- e.g. Why are you adding RPG leveling system? What it would do to the players? How would they play with?
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See also: *HEARTS, CLUBS, DIAMONDS, SPADES: PLAYERS WHO SUIT MUDS*
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## About this very game ##
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### Friendlier version of Dwarf Fortress Adventure mode ###
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- Yet _lots of fun_
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- Add Fortress mode features by 'make your own settling'
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- Hard to actually die, but once you die, you're done.
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+ Config: imtooyoungtodie for easy mode
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- Genre: Adventure, Open world (towns in RPG, building, town managing (conquer existing one or
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you build one and persuade existing people to move in) -> See Dwarf Fortress and Animal Crossing)
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* Adventure: adventure this vast—5,5 km wide—world, discover new (and good/horrible) things
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* Open world:
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- Building: building your own houses, structures, etc.
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- Town managing:
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1. Build your own little hamlet and manage it
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or-
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2. Conquer existing one and become a ruler
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The town is a special hamlet that can be tailored for your taste
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- Survival:
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mobs will trying to attack your assets (yourself, your hamlet, your people)
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### Side view ###
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### Interact menu w/ mouse right ###
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### Pixelated sprites ###
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- Use 2x sprites if rotating does not work well
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### User experience ###
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* Indicative mouse cursor
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### Game mechanics ###
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* 24 pixels == 1 metre
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### Purpose of the game ###
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* Boss
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- Will be mentioned/shown as absolute _evil_.
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- But actually is not.
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* Theme
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- Is an evil really really is what we think?
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- Is there a thing as 'absolute evil'?
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* Boss character
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- From debugger character
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- Name key: "Sigriðr hinn Dróttningin" (can be changed)
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* Little setting
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- A ruler, hated by people
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* Mechanics
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- Beating boss does not ends the game, but grants an ability to
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create new character as it.
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