Scott Fine Game Design

This time we’ll be taking a look at a few different RPG leveling systems, and more specifically how they relate to skills. Some light spoilers going forward for Pokemon games, Diablo 4, and Starfield.

There are a variety of crafting systems, and they are all interesting in their own ways. Depending on your game’s pillars, you’d probably lean one way over the others. But what are the three most referenced styles?

When games do a weapon durability system, it often comes with two other systems: weapon crafting and weapon repair. These three systems build a nice little loop, but Zelda Tears of The Kingdom only uses durability. We’ll explore what Zelda does to buck the trend and still have a successful loop.

This time we’ll be lightly touching on how games create specific emotions in players via gameplay. I’ll be using Stray as my example to guide us along. Throughout the game, interactions between the player character and their environment change over time and influence the emotions they feel. This can most easily be noticed when dealing with Zurks.

Welcome to a Mini Mechanic Microscope, where we very briefly look at a very small mechanic and how it influences a larger one. This time around we’re looking at Boltgun’s Chainsword!

For this month’s post, I’m going to be taking a look at the event structure for Halo Infinite. They’ve done a few things which I think are particularly clever and interesting, then they’ve done some things which I find myself asking WHY? We’ll cover both today!

Welcome back to round three of our look into battle passes. This time, we’re going to be chatting about progression in the battle passes. This one is going to be very math and logic heavy, but I’m going to break it down so anyone can understand it.

Welcome back! This time we’re talking about the value of a battle pass. Let’s get started!

Today we’re going to start talking about battle passes! Almost every successful live game has one, and we’re going to break down the most common types of battle passes seen today. We’ll discuss how they work, and the pros and cons in each.