Alex Designs Games

Follow my journey through the world of game design.

Art of Game Design Lens 7

“A Game is an interactive structure of endogenous meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal” -Greg Costikyan Lens 7 in Art of Game Design focuses in on the endogenous value of the game you’re designing. Merriam Webster defines endogenous as: In the context of video games, endogenous can be defined as referring to…
The Art of Game Design Lens 6

I accidentally let all of February go by without a post. I’ve had my hands full with my new job (woot woot) and learning web design fundamentals. I recently learned that my 2017 Macbook Pro can run Unity so, I’ve been slowly making my way through some tutorials found on their website. So far I’ve…
The Art of Game Design Lens 3 and 4

For this post I’ll be answering questions from Lens 3 and 4 from “The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses”. Lens #3: The Lens of The Venue “The places that we play exert tremendous influence on the design of our games. To make sure you aren’t designing in a vacuum, ask yourself these…