1,000 year game challenge!
The official submissions for the 1,000 year game state that the rules should not be longer than 1,000 words. Since this was my first foray into game design, I also wanted to publish my thoughts and some of my decisions.
Millennium Saga
The Millennium Saga is a game which takes 1,000 years to complete. This is my submission to the Thousand Year Game competition. The idea is to get the players to think in the long term, and poetry which takes 1,000 years of compromise, revision and history certain forces you avoid short-term gains.
The Great Sea Salt Saleman
After a run-in with this salesman, it was worth sitting down and analyzing the tactics. The funnel and conversion rate in such an overstimulated, competitive market as a shopping mall fascinate me in the what is needed to cut through to make a pedestrian into a customer.
Accessible Color Swatches
When dealing with charts and graphs it is important to select the right set of colors. Not only for brand awareness, but for other reasons such as accessibility, printability, contrast, maximum understanding and recognition. In this article, I will give you some pointers to finding the best possibly set of colors to be used in your design.
City Swatches
City Swatches are quick and simple thumbnails of geographic locations, usually cities of similar latitudes and longitudes. Laying out all the city swatches gives a quick and interesting overview of any locations place in the larger scheme of the entire globe.