Hacker News with Generative AI: Game Design

The Final Hours of Half-Life 2 (gamespot.com)
The newest installment in Geoff Keighley's Behind the Games series covers the turbulent development of Half-Life 2. This special feature takes you behind the scenes on the development of the game at Valve Software, including exclusive details on the infamous source code leak.

Video Games, Development, Game Design, History, Leaks

12 points by ydnaclementine 4 days ago | 1 comments

Dobble (The Mathematics Of) (2018) (petercollingridge.co.uk)
Dobble (also called Spot It!), is a card game that uses special circular cards, each with a number (8 in the standard pack, 6 in the kids pack) of symbols or image. There are various ways to play, but they all the games involve finding which symbol is common to two cards. The cards are designed so that any two cards will always have one symbol in common.

Game Design, Mathematics, Card Games

70 points by alexchamberlain 11 days ago | 8 comments

Unbounded: A Generative Infinite Game of Character Life Simulation (generative-infinite-game.github.io)
We introduce the concept of a generative infinite game, a video game that transcends the traditional boundaries of finite, hard-coded systems by using generative models.

Generative AI, Video Games, Game Design, Artificial Intelligence

4 points by xnx 27 days ago | 0 comments

The Mathematics of Dobble (2018) (petercollingridge.co.uk)
Dobble (also called Spot It!), is a card game that uses special circular cards, each with a number (8 in the standard pack, 6 in the kids pack) of symbols or image. There are various ways to play, but they all the games involve finding which symbol is common to two cards. The cards are designed so that any two cards will always have one symbol in common.

Mathematics, Game Design, Card Games

20 points by phreeza 61 days ago | 2 comments

D&D is Anti-Medieval (blogofholding.com)
You can be forgiven for thinking that OD&D is a medieval European fantasy game. After all, Gary Gygax himself says so. He describes the original D&D books as “Rules for Fantastic Medieval War Games” (on the cover) and “rules [for] designing your own fantastic-medieval campaign” (in the introduction). However, in the game itself, there’s precious little to suggest feudalism, Europe, chivalry, a post-imperial dark age, or even the existence of a monarchy at all.

D&D, Fantasy Games, Medieval History, Game Design

306 points by bookofjoe 67 days ago | 404 comments

The quest for a Wiki-less game (stackexchange.com)
I often see that a community will make a wiki for games that have a large amount of elements, I am attempting to create an in-game application of a "wiki" keeping track of what has been found or done to remind you of something you may have forgotten without having a 'terraria problem' where you need it to do anything.

Game Development, Community, Game Design

48 points by azeemba 72 days ago | 109 comments

Supporting game design with evolutionary algorithms (gamedeveloper.com)

Game Design, Evolutionary Algorithms

75 points by kevthecoder 97 days ago | 57 comments

Why is 'Left Stick to Sprint' so unpleasant in games? (aria.dog)

Video Games, Game Design, User Experience, Accessibility

29 points by todsacerdoti 106 days ago | 26 comments

Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city (arstechnica.com)

Game Design, Pixel Art, City Planning, Retro Games

8 points by YesBox 111 days ago | 0 comments

Game Designers Run Your Life (scientificamerican.com)

Game Design, Life, Artificial Intelligence, Society

23 points by gautamsomani 126 days ago | 3 comments

Baba Is You: A puzzle game where the rules are objects you can manipulate (hempuli.com)