39: The Tricks of the Toolkit with Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit)

Mark Brown of Game Maker's Toolkit joins us to talk about the process behind his excellent series on game design. We discuss his recent video on randomness - diving deep on input/output randomness - as well as roguelike progression, and much more!

Things we discussed:

Game Maker's Toolkit

How (And Why) Spelunky Makes its Own Levels

The Two Types of Random

Michael Brough's Imbroglio "brog"

Characteristics of Games

Playing at the World

Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design

Geoff Engelstein's "pink noise" talk

Roguelikes, Persistency, and Progression

Let's Game it Out YouTube channel

The Best Games from GMTK Game Jam 2019