How To Design a Decision | Game Design

Video games consist almost entirely out of decisions. So what makes for a good decision?

This video should help you to craft even more interesting decisions for your players, make better games and find new and innovative game mechanics.

What do you think makes for an interesting and engaging decision in a game? Let me know. And enjoy! :)

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[JonasTyroller]

What do you think makes for a great decision in a game?

[badradish]

sometimes its fun to not get decision feedback right away, the mechanic becomes probing a blackbox trying to figure out whats inside, but the longer you wait to give something, the harder it is to make that actually feel even possible to understand. might be fun to see a game where parts of the puzzle are covered and you have to figure out whats hidden to move on, at which point the bits are revealed.

[VeryBlueBot]

listen you are really good at summing points... this is gold, I basically build a list of todos for game design based of your vids... Top stuff thanks!

[peterschooley]

1) Freedom or Options 1:33
2) Impact 2:09
3) Understanding 2:48
4) Meaning 3:43
5) Challenge 4:28
6) Game Design Pyramid: Sandbox or Gambling 6:42
7) 5 Seconds of fun 7:20
8) Ways to fix a bad game? 8:28
a) More Freedom, new ability 8:49
b) Bigger Impact, different outcomes, lasting consequences 9:08
c) Clearer Understanding. Feel impact of your decisions more when they're understood 9:32
d) The more the future is impacted the more meaningful they feel 9:58
e) Challenge wears off, keep it interesting, randomness, multiplayer, good balance 10:07

[gamesbygrigg]

Big fan of the channel thanks for all the great content! You put a lot of work into these videos and it shows.

[GunnarClovis]

These are my favorite videos of yours, and this is another new high. Likely your best video yet. Excellent job. Much respect.

[CookieGuy]

I came here from btp video and just watched a couple of your videos, really great content man 😊

[PhodexGames]

Man your videos are way better than mine :D. I guess I should put more work into them, but I don't want to sacrifice my development capabilities too much. How do you handle it? Again great video, well explained, nice footage and editing. I am actually going to use a random event system in my game, where the player can choose from a good and evil decision resulting in a direct effect and ultimately in two different endings :)

[Astoaria]

Man your videos are unique! I really like the way you analize things. Really interesting and useful. Plus I'm at that stage I am actually working on designing decisions. Keep it up!

[shaishavpathak]

Bro, why do I feel like that example game would make a great and pretty addicting mobile game?

[ExpensivePizza]

I've learned more about game design from this channel than any other.

[AntiqueGear]

I think my redesign of Grand Illusion lets the player make more interesting decisions thanks to your suggestions.


Great video as always!

[brownricestudio]

Oh yes, a new video. I was holding my phone waiting for this video

[mikaxms]

Great video Jonas! I think being able to express yourself in overcoming the challenge make for great decisions. For example: do you go in guns blazing or stealthly sneak around.

[GustavoSilva-nyjc]

5:31 You can even enter an impass on deciding you rather lose points or loves, how can you do it and still beat the game, you could easily create an impossible condition. You just casually created a FANTASTIC game!!!! Im playing scenarios in my head and im quite crazy to play this one (put different points, for example, and this become like gambling, you would make people good at math lol). And yeah, you just convinced that a prototype can be a fun engaging game 😂, creating an interesting scenario of decisions, trade off and planning is more important than the game looking cool.

[Jari_FenixEXP]

Great video as usual! Definitely gonna show this to my team!

[thegdviking]

Thanks for making this video!
I'm gonna make a game
inspired by this :)

[shivanshchanana]

AMAZING, I love your game design videos dude. It helps alot for our team to have a decision for our game.

[monishvyas]

Was going to sleep, saw the notification from Jonas, now I will be awake for few more minutes.

[ErtBaran]

I really happy to meet you. I watching your videos randomly. And it's so funny and i learning too much things.