Games That Play Themselves
An example of this is Despot’s Game (the game played during the stream), characters are placed into positions on the map and the ‘fight’ button is clicked. The rest is down to the game! Can You Please Everyone With Your Game? (59:18 - 1:00:54) If you try to please everyone, you’ll please no one.
Join Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* in a conversation about games that play themselves! Find out what that actually means, watch them play Despot’s Game and learn new game dev tips as they answer questions from the community.
(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's very own Instructor extraordinaire).
Listen to the whole chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTGmego2H0s
Our 'AHA' moments
- What is a game that plays itself?
- Tim and Rick disagree on what the definition of ‘games that play themselves’ is!
- Remember - as an indie developer you won’t please everyone
- Watch the stream from 1:11:30 to see Rick and Tim’s early (and awkward) YouTube videos :D
YouTube Channel.Until next time, happy dev'ing!