Getting started
I’ve wanted to start a design log for some time, but I’ve always mistakenly believed that I’d waiting too long to get going. A few times I’ve been sure we were putting the finishing touches on Legends of the Arena, only to make large, sweeping changes a few days later.
This design log (or developer diary) is series of posts that will catalog interesting game design decisions and changes we make as we continue to develop Legends of the Arena. I hope to make these posts informal and frequent. They won’t delve too much into theory, but some of the ideas touched on here may be expanded into longer posts later (let me know if anything stands out to you as worthy of further discussion). Not every idea discussed here will actually make it into the final game; in fact many of them will be quite unpolished. Lightly filtered design musings. I hope these notes can help me clarify my thoughts and perhaps even inspire others. At the very least it will be interesting to look back on all of the paths not taken!