Combining Action and Strategy in One Game: The Making of Automech Tower Defense by Juan Gril, Studio Manager, Joju Games
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Juan Gril talks about the design process for Automech Tower Defense.
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Combining Action and Strategy in One Game: The Making of Automech Tower Defense by Juan Gril, Studio Manager, Joju Games
- 1. Automech Tower Defense Postmortem Juan Gril, Studio Manager, Joju Games
- 2. Mixing Genres Create A New One ● A very interesting challenge in game design.
- 3. Inspiration
- 5. Creating a Good Action Game ● Objective: protect the Lab. ● Player controls Automech CAR MODE MECH MODE fast movements, weak slow movements, strong armor/weapons armor/weapons
- 6. Creating a Good Strategy Game ● Tower defense mechanic. ● Tower pros/cons. ● Balancing of the economy is key.
- 7. Mixing It Up ● Scarce resources at the beginning make the player focus on the action. Later on, the player earns enough financial resources to better manage his/her army.
- 8. Overachiever Reward: Upgrades ● Get enough upgrades to beat the later levels.
- 9. One More Level: Story ● The story gives context and makes players come back for more. But it's also brief.
- 10. The Result
- 11. Thank you! ● Feel free to send me your questions at juangril@jojugames.com