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Derek Yu
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I love studying video game UI and noticing all the little details the designers put into menus and buttons: how they look, react, slide on/off the screen, etc.

Just realized the shape of the Smash Ultimate 2nd-level main menus are designed around the icons! Blew my mind a bit!
Fun fact: the lead UI designer for the Smash series (and many Kirby games) is Michiko Sakurai, who is also the wife of Masahiro Sakurai. Husband and wife team FTW!

While I'm talking about UI, may as well re-share @helvetica's great GDC talk about the "three reads", called Building Games That Can Be Understood at a Glance:

stfj.net/DesigningForSu…

Another great resource for video game UI design is @dom2d's PlayPeep tumblr:

playpeep.tumblr.com
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Derek Yu
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A fundamental problem with difficulty options in games is that there are many players between obvious skill levels. This means:

1. Players have to immediately make an important decision without adequate knowledge.

2. Players will continue to question that decision during play.
Players know that difficulty levels are often tacked on, regardless of the game's budget, exacerbating the anxiety of whether they chose the "right" one.

This breaks immersion pretty hard. Gentle reminders about easier difficulty settings after Game Over don't help.
In many ways, interactivity (audience control) and art (creator's vision) simply don't mix well, and game designers have become very creative about band-aiding the bad parts. We've gotten used to tutorials and difficulty settings and such even though they're less than ideal.
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Derek Yu
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IMO the hardest step for aspiring (commercial) indie game developers is learning to finish games consistently and efficiently - to move past game jams and prototypes but also avoid getting mired in a single project for years without end. It's a tiny sweet spot that's hard to hit.
One piece of advice is to try and avoid falling in love with your development tools over the game you're building them for. You will find time and time again that successful indie games are often built with crude tools and/or messy code. Just enough to get the job done.
I've also come to believe that if you show off your game and receive a tepid response, it's generally better to try and finish the game *faster* and move on instead of extending the development to try and fix what is probably an issue at the core.
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