Gamasutra - RPG Game Design Essentials

[Couchpotato]

Gamasutra has an article from 2009 with writer John Harris who talks about 20 RPGs that are essential to all RPG designers. He uses a mix of WRPG, and JRPG games.

In the latest in his popular Game Design Essentials series, which has previously spanned subjects from Atari games through 'mysterious games', 'open world games', 'unusual control schemes' and 'difficult games', writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly makes them tick, and why you should care.

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[daveyd]

Here's a link to the RPG article specifically: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132457/game_design_essentials_20_rpgs.php

But it's not new, it's from 2009… err, unless he's doing an updated one that isn't posted yet. Still interesting though.

 

[Couchpotato]

Thanks I knew I forgot something, and yeah it's a re-uploaded article. They sometime do this, and I always get them mixed up. Just like the Diablo article last month.

 

[forgottenlor]

Well I missed it the first time around, so thanks. I find the discussion of the JRPGs interesting, since I was never a console owner.