Hiding what a player cannot use yet, without hiding the quest
Development covered 30 Aug 2026 to 4 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Progression games accumulate lists. As Myriad Immortal Sect filled out, the market, th…
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Reach as a stat, and other ways to make a map behave like a place
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 6 Aug 2026 (commit dates). The overworld had been finished for a while in the sense that it worked. You could walk…
What Is EvoWild Run Actually Supposed to Be?
In the previous post, I wrote about how a horse-racing idea gradually turned into a game about fictional creatures, breeding, lineage, and racing: W…
Can a Blockchain Game Exist Without Coins, NFTs, or Play-to-Earn?
Recently, I saw an announcement on X about a new blockchain game. I wasn't particularly interested in that project itself. What caught my attention…
Making a game again
It all started on YouTube About 3 years ago, more or less, was the last time I developed video games. I had a channel that I started around 2020-202…
What the 10 Best Mobile Games of 2026 Teach Us About Game Design
The top-performing mobile games of 2026 aren't just worth playing — they're worth studying. We ranked the 10 best titles right now by gameplay depth…
How to Build a Reward Economy for a Mobile Game
Rewards are the language mobile games use to talk to players. Every coin drop, every chest, every daily login bonus is the game saying: "You did som…
Game Prototyping: How to Find the Fun Before You Build the Wrong Thing
Most studios do not fail because the idea was bad. They fail because they spent too long on the wrong version of it. Prototyping fixes that. The Fou…
Designing a platformer where you don’t control jumping
We recently released a 2D precision platformer on Android, built around a simple question: What happens if the player doesn't control jumping? In mo…
Best Game Economy Design Tools for Modern Game Teams
Game economy design has a tooling problem. Every other design discipline has dedicated software, UI designers use Figma, project managers use Jira,…
Why Spreadsheets Are Not Enough for Game Economy Design
Spreadsheets built game economies before any dedicated tool existed for the job. And honestly — for a long time, they were fine. Simple math, a few…