The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 8: Other Games you Should Play)
As a designer, it’s important to play lots of games and to ‘collect’ all the different mechanics out there in the world. If you’ve enjoyed this blo...
The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 7: Making Survivors)
Creating the Survivors was an interesting puzzle. Killers have a lot of built-in personality through Killer Powers and a huge power budget to work ...
The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 6: Making Killers)
Building Killers was one of the most interesting and challenging parts of creating Dead by Daylight: The Board Game. The key challenge of designing...
Part 5: Mechanics Sacrificed in the Basement
Welcome back! Last week, I shared some mechanics that made it into the final game. This week, I’ll talk about the ones that didn’t. These mechani...
The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 4: Mechanics that Escaped the Trial)
Many of the mechanics in the board game changed significantly over the course of design, but eventually they “escaped the trial” and became the fin...
The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 3: High-Stakes Hide and Seek)
Welcome to The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game! In these blogs, I’ll share a few of the details on how this project came together. I ho...
The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 2: A Functional Collector’s Item)
Welcome to The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game! In these blogs, I’ll share a few of the details on how this project came together. I ho...
The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game (Part 1: Cooperative Murder Battleship)
Welcome to The Making of Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game! In these blogs, I’ll share a few of the details on how this project came together. I ho...
Strategy-Centered Design
Thinking in terms of ‘Strategies’ rather than ‘Actions’ will help your designs adapt to the way players actually play them. Within a game, players ...
System-Oriented Design
Building your game with Systems will streamline your design process and keep your game compartmentalized and agile. These days, we often hear a lot...
Experience-Focused Design
Thinking in terms of ‘Experience’ will help you design a game that fulfills its promise to players. In designing a game, it’s important to focus on...
You need a Design Process!
People often ask “how can I get good at designing games?” or “what’s the best thing I can do to become a game designer?” and among designers, the s...