Goal-a-mid | Total Pebble Knockdown #101
3On this episode of Total Pebble Knockdown:
Sometimes you need an expert to teach you the basics. So, we looked at Will Wright’s Masterclass on writing game mechanics to see if his 5 tips are worth taking into consideration. Then, we try to parse numbers 3 and 4 to make it make sense.
The Masterclass article - https://www.masterclass.com/articles/will-wrights-tips-for-writing-game-mechanics
So, what is the difference between linear and emergent gameplay? Can a chatbot give us half-way decent examples of games that use them? Do we have better suggestions? Can the two play nice together?
Design Doc about Final Fantasy 10 & 13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZMJDFe1kc
How many short-term goals go into a long-term goal? What are those? We look at how games and designers use short-term goals and build upon them for larger things. We also try to make an unnecessary number of levels for goals, which probably was just us over-thinking it.
#gamedesign #gamemechanics #ttrpg
0:00 Intro
2:29 Will Wright's writing Masterclass
29:23 Linear & Emergent Gameplay
55:56 Short-Term & Long-Term Goals
1:11:01 Outro
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