Hi! I‘m
Arnold Rauers.
Since 2012 I create video games
with various talented people
as Tinytouchtales.
We've made GUNCHO, Geo Gods, Card Crawl Adventure, Gnomitaire, Maze Machina, Miracle Merchant, Card Thief, ENYO and Card Crawl which are available on the App Store and Google Play. I've also released a few games on Steam.
I publish Game-Jam games and showcase my game ideas and prototypes on Itch.io.
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2018-10-09 - Ask
Paper Prototypes
Tau asks: “How do you prototype your ideas? Do you ever make paper prototypes or do you go directly on a computer?”
Hi Tau,
at this point i’m only using my computer to prototype. The great thing about digital prototyping or using code to prototype is that you have to really think about your idea on a whole different level in terms of rules and structure. Since a computer is super strict about how things work you can’t just type in some stuff and it works. You have to be super precise about everything and that moment in prototyping is really amazing since you have to exactly formulate each part of your idea in code. This will mostly reveal a lot of flaws in your original design and will either push you forward fast or make you abandon an idea quickly.