Comments on: Morphblade And Imbroglio: Making A Game To Test A Critique

By: Revue de presse #4 | Tartine Mécanique

Revue de presse #4 | Tartine Mécanique — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 11:15:26 +0000

[…] Morphblade And Imbroglio: Making A Game To Test A Critique Tom Francis est le type brillant qui a accouché de Gunpoint. Tom Francis a aimé Imbroglio d’un autre type brillant nommé Michael Brough. Seulement sa philosophie de design étant un peu différente il a décidé d’adapter Imbroglio à sa sauce. Ça a donné Morphblade et il nous en détaille le processus. […]

By: RoboLeg

RoboLeg — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:53:07 +0000

this game would be PERFECT for mobile, and I’d happily pay 10 bucks or so for it.

By: Jepp

Jepp — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:03:58 +0000

1) Please keep critiquing games by building new ones :)

2) The non-hand holding, simple systems integrating approach leads to some great “portal-esque” moments where I feel like a genius for figuring out I can combine two things I’ve already figured out to do something new (meanwhile behind the scenes this only because you’ve carefully set it up this way through development).

3) I really like the adjacency upgrade linkages mixed with having “less powerful” tiles. It makes the upgrade and new tile decision so much more interesting, and prevents the scenario a lot of games have where you are given lots of decisions, but in practice you never use them because you’ve already figured out the optimal ones.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 06:56:26 +0000

Are you going to release Morphblade for iOS or the Nintendo Switch? I would really like to play this on my phone/tablet on the go.

By: Spaceman Moses

Spaceman Moses — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 08:47:36 +0000

One-eyeing this on my phone from the depths of my covers I lazily ask: what do you mean XCOM2 clarity issues? (I imagine I can google it but my mind is fuzzy)

(Context: I didn’t like XCOM2, having enjoyed the first, so am curious)

By: kripto

kripto — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:19:05 +0000

For what it’s worth, I also like Morphblade more than Imbroglio. Although, to be fair, I’ve also got a crippling problem with anything that demands “deck building” type mechanics, which is to say games that ask me to basically determine how I’m going to play the game before I get into it. I don’t like having to design my own spaceships (although I did enjoy Gratuitous Space Battles), and I obviously loathe CCGs.

I’m much more pleased by playing through a game, making choices during it, seeing what works for me, and then basing my future decisions/runs around what I found worked before. I’d argue that games which allow this are much better designed than games where you’re just handed a truckload of options and asked to find the winning combination.