Building the Best Environment for Making Games - #282 - Game Dev Local Podcast

About this episode

Oscar discusses Game Economy design with Matthew Laurence from Avalanche Studios.

In this episode Oscar is joined in his podquest to 'learn everything about #gamedev you never dared to ask' by Matthew Laurence, Head of Engagement at Avalanche Studios. We talk about what we mean by Game Economy design and the practical steps needed to build the engine that makes a game worth playing.

People in this episode

Host: Oscar

Guest: Matthew Laurence

Topics covered

• Game Economy design
• game development
• environment design
• game mechanics
• game design

Keywords

• game development
• Game Economy
• Avalanche Studios
• game design
• game mechanics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Avalanche Studios

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