• The Lazy Designer,  Writing Resources

    The OTHER Solution in Game Design

    The Other Solution For the most part throughout my Lazy Designer series I focus on what I believe is the right way to implement particular design tasks. Based on my experience I have a recipe book, so to speak, of design solutions to specific problems. Throughout the books I make reference to these. The other day I was wondering if there was a different way to go about solving problems. What if you selected a random, or rather bizarre, solution? (Admittedly I hadn’t slept much the night before). Low Morale Some early RPG games (including Baldur’s Gate 1) allowed enemies to flee once their morale broke. The players basically kick…

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    Amazon Quarterfinals

    Last week I mentioned my novels “The Pool” had made it to the quarterfinals in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest. Now the excerpt I submitted is available for anybody to read and review, for free. If you are interested, I’d appreciate you taking a look at it. http://www.amazon.com/The-Pool-2014-ABNA-Entry-ebook/dp/B00JOU2GBI The editors from Publishers Weekly make the decision of who advances and I do not think feedback on the excerpts, negative or positive, influence the decision at this stage. But I noticed that several of the other entries have started to receive customer reviews (on their excerpt) and figured I should at least mention this… (p.s., A big thanks to the Amazon reviewers…