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He also wrote up what he learned making these fifty games and I translated it (with his permission & cooperation):

https://gist.github.com/polm/05db396cf08b9ec2a81c

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I'm working on my own minigames with spritekit and love these tips!

Does anyone know of any other blogs/books to read with handy tips on game design?

You probably already found it, bit the Game Programming Patterns[0] website is a great read. I bought the book, but all content is available on the site.

Also nice is this archived post[1] on getting started as game programmer.

I am making my first real game this year, also using SpriteKit.

[0]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20051104034215/http://www.lupineg...

Here's Ryan Clark (Crypt of the NecroDancer) writing about what makes a game commercially viable:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanClark/20150917/253842/Wha...

Here's Jan Willem Nijman of Vlambeer discussing a large number of small improvements that make games feel good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U

Here's Rami Ismail, also of Vlambeer, explaining how making a game a week helps you develop an intuition for some parts of game making:

http://ramiismail.com/2014/02/game-a-week/

Here's a talk by Sid Meier (Civilization) about Interesting Decisions:

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015756/Interesting

Ryan also has a great Twitch stream every friday where he analyzes the current Steam topsellers and Kickstarter projects.

Sounds interesting. Does he archive on youtube?

Sorry I only just saw this, hope it'll reach you. You can find previous broadcasts at https://www.twitch.tv/ryan_clark/profile

Another one from Vlambeer, and a personal favourite:

'Juice it or lose it' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

The Jan Willem Nijman talk was excellent, thanks for posting it!

To those that haven't seen it yet, he iterates a boring game prototype into something that actually seems worthwhile. And all he does is add tiny things that seem inconsequential at first. Stuff like "make the bullets faster" and "add a muzzle flash".

I was amazed at how big of a difference the small changes made in the end. Adding enough lipstick to a pig actually worked wonderfully.

lots of info, leads, links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design

also try Google, Amazon and YouTube

You should check the GDC Vault!

http://www.gdcvault.com/

gdcvault.com - videos from game developers conference

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