RPG Design Malthouse

Think Before You Stat

Posted on by Hayley Gordon
30
May

Stats continue to be a popular choice in game design. They are a simple and intuitive way of creating mechanically unique player characters, and mediating conflicts between these characters and the world. But should stats really be the go-to game design choice? In this article I discuss what stats are, what they fail at, and […]

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RPG Design Malthouse

Designing in Another Morality

Posted on by Hayley Gordon
14
May

As designers we all construct and manipulate the moral universe of our game. When we ask a person to play our game, we often require them to pivot their worldview and ethical framework. In this post I discuss the moral power of designers, and then move on to my approach to re-framing player expectations to […]

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