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Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Crude Oil

The Big Issue of this years’ US presidential election: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – to drill, or not to drill? Everyone who ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorSeptember 5, 2008
Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Testing the Limits of Single-Player

Go is often cited as a touchstone for profoundly deep gameplay that emerges from a shockingly simple set of basic game mechanics. You ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorAugust 8, 2008
Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Regret

The journalist would be watching me work and live for a week, and he wanted to see my game design process from start ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2008
Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Immortality

“If you had an immortality pill right there in front of you, would you take it?” My spouse paused before answering. She had ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorJune 13, 2008
Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Police Brutality

I saw a YouTube video recently that moved me. It’s a pretty famous video – the source of the *Yale Book of Quotations* ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorMay 9, 2008
Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Idealism

  In my past life, I was a free software zealot. Free as in “freedom,” not as in “free beer.” You know—open source, ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorApril 11, 2008
Game Design Sketchbook

Game Design Sketchbook: Perfectionism

It was 10:30 p.m. on February 29, 2008. I had just finished building *Gravitation* Version 1 for all platforms, packaging each build, posting ...
By Jason Rohrer Legacy AuthorMarch 14, 2008
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