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Territory Control in Pokemon Go

An Analysis and Design Concept

11 min readMay 29, 2022

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Territory Control in Pokemon Go

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Embedded, and Environmental Narrative

Lessons from Theme Park Design: Part 5

4 min readMay 24, 2022

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Embedded, and Environmental Narrative

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Decoration

Game Design Lessons from Theme Park Design - Part 4: Decoration

5 min readMay 23, 2022

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Decoration

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Textures

Game Design Lessons from Theme Park Design: Part 3

6 min readMay 21, 2022

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Textures

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Lighting

Game Design Lessons from Theme Park Design: Part 2

5 min readMay 19, 2022

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth — Lighting

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The Game Design Behind the Most Magical Place on Earth

Game Design Lessons from Theme Park Design: Part 1

4 min readMay 17, 2022

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A Magic Kingdom Castle beyond the trees.

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Connecting Design Patterns to the Games that Use Them

I have discussed the idea of a Pattern Language before and discussed the importance of connecting patterns together. Today I want to talk a…

3 min readDec 10, 2021

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Connecting Design Patterns to the Games that Use Them

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Peer-Reviewed Game Design Patterns Paper Published!

The Process of writing an academic paper turns out to be a bit different than posting here or even completing a textbook. In the end, it…

2 min readOct 25, 2021

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Peer-Reviewed Game Design Patterns Paper Published!

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Sample Course Using Pattern Language for Game Design

This is the syllabus that I use to teach both the undergraduate Level Design and Game Architecture and the graduate version, Spatial and…

6 min readDec 31, 2020

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Teaching with Patterns

Applying Pattern Language for Game Design to the Classroom

3 min readDec 31, 2020

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Teaching with Patterns

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Chris Barney

Chris Barney

Video Game Designer (Poptropica), Board Game Designer (Fall of the Last City), Asst. Prof. (Northeastern University), Speaker (GDC, ECGC, BFig, Pax, DevCom)

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