Game Development: Developing for Gameplay, Theme, and Manufacturing
In many game companies, developers are different than designers. They will take a game designer’s working game and adapt it for publication. These changes might be intended to: Improve gameplay To better fit the game company’s customers To meet manufacturing constraints or goals. Developing Gameplay The developer will first continue to refine the game. Dale Yu – the game developer for Dominion, Suburbia, and Castles of Mad King Ludwig – relates how he played Suburbia solitaire hundreds of times to refine which tiles to include in the game.