Category Archives: Game Design

continued from developer notes #6 Stalin Stalin provides a diametrically opposite command experience. This time it is the Player who dominates the command structure. There is no need to play politics when you are the alpha male, the top dog. … Continue reading →

continued from developer notes #5 Hitler Hitler was an outlier. Here was a domineering, driven, charismatic man who exerted a level of control well beyond any reasonable expectations of somebody perched at the very apex of a command pyramid. That … Continue reading →

continued from developer notes #4 Delegation Being in Command entails making a lot of decisions. A fundamental rule is that the higher up the Chain of Command you climb the more decisions there are to make. This applies equally to … Continue reading →

continued from developer notes #3 Superiors and Subordinates Once it was decided to model a Chain of Command there was a need to fill the hierarchy with people. For the Soviet side they were all subordinates but the German side … Continue reading →

continued from developer notes #2 The Chain of Command This is a little trickier than it first appears. Yes there is a Chain of Command. But where does the Player sit within it? Most military simulation type games answer this … Continue reading →