General Game Design

[DragonsRage]

One thing that I have noticed here on these forums is that are a significant number of people who are getting to far ahead of themselves, focusing more and more on how cool their game is going to be, rather than making it work. I found this article on gamedev that details many aspects of game design and I think anyone starting on a new game should take a look at it.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/design/features/evolution/default.asp

[zammbi]

Mine is game is going to be the coolest of them all!!!! hehe kidding.
Yea some people can get head of themselves, but when people have a goal they usually don't listen. But maybe the article can help.

[Eli Delventhal]

Cool article.

It's also useful to know some software engineering techniques before you try to make a game.

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[SwampChicken]

A good read... thanks for the link.

[CommanderKeith]

Yeah thanks, that was interesting. I wish I read ti earlier. I just assumed my game would be fun since I was pretty much just copying pokemon but now i realise it really isn't fun at all! bugger 

[zammbi]

I finished reading it, I found a lot common sense to me, but sure would help many people out. So I agree its a nice article.