If you are going to have a rigid tutorial that stops players clicking the wrong thing, make sure nothing can go wrong with your logic, leaving them stuck.
Poor show, Fairway Solitaire.
Because the UNDO feature is so powerful we put a limit on the number of times it could be used. You can only UNDO a shot when you have UNDOllars available. All players start off with 4 UNDOllars, and additional UNDOllars are awarded for every 1 million points scored across all game modes.
UNDO - Blueprint new feature #3
I think the limit on your ability to undo moves is very clever and a great idea for a high-score based game.
Gently monetised as well, with them being built back up through either repeated play or in-app purchase.
Source: zee-3.com
We are losing money not because of pirates; we are losing money because people decided not to buy our game.
Hooray, they get it.
Witcher 2 dev: next Xbox not playing pre-owned games “a bad thing”
Source: eurogamer.net
Milestone! Solebon solitaire is still the iOS game I play most and keep coming back to.
Just Dance 3 has some nice ideas for achievements.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. “This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
One for everyone crunching away on games. Stop. Think. Is it really worth it?
Top five regrets of the dying | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Source: Guardian
I wonder how many developers exist because of piracy
I was struck by the thought earlier that I probably wouldn’t even be in the games industry if it wasn’t for piracy.
Playing a pirate copy of Quake got me interested in first person shooters, which meant that I took part in after-office-hours matches of QuakeWorld (also pirated), which got me interested in making maps, which eventually led to my first game job as a level designer.
I wonder how many other people became game developers because of an interest sparked by playing pirated software.
IMDb - The rating for ‘This is Spinal Tap’ goes up to 11
/via treitmaier
I love this sort of in-joke and attention to detail.
Source: littlebigdetails
Unless I’m missing something, the very first puzzle of Crosslogic isn’t possible with just logic and needs some guessing or use of hints?
If that’s the case, it’s pretty poor design.
Paper Monsters - the first tutorial screen shows me how to move. Except that in order to walk over and trigger the tutorial I already had to work out how to do that myself.
