Burning Freeways and Blind Bids! (Or: Real Life Auctions)
A week and a half ago a major interchange in the California Bay Area literally melted in a hellish inferno. Following a single-vehicle tanker truck crash, over eight thousand gallons of gasoline lit...
View ArticleThe US Elections as Bad Game Design
Though this blog often looks at game design through the lens of published games, that’s not the only possible source of great game design ideas. A few years ago I wrote an article about burning...
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Gift Giving Mechanics in Games
Last week I offered up a gift guide for Christmas giving. This week I’m going to continue the seasonal theme by looking at gift-giving as a game mechanic. Sure, it’s hard to fashion pure gift-giving...
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The House Selling Game
Real life is full of games such as contract bidding, gift exchanging, and national voting — a topic that I’ve previously touched upon in a few different posts about “real-life mechanics”. These...
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