Nat Marco

Designer and Co-Founder of Honeyslug.

Pre-Honeyslug I was a Designer at Morpheme Game Studios, a satellite studio of Eidos Interactive.

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Studied animation at Uni – specialising in Claymation.

Work experience at Morpheme Wireless.

Try thinking outside the box!

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About Honeyslug

3 full time employees (design, code, production, QA).... plus freelance artists (both visual and audio).

We have developed games for multiple platforms and are working on more!

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You’re a designer? So…you do the art?

In a small studio – roles merge.

A lot of the tasks are shared by all 3 of us.

Expect to wear many hats!

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Ideas

Paper Design vs Flash Prototyping

Brainstorm

Collaboration

Let ideas evolve over time

Re-visit/re-hash old (discarded) ideas

Take inspiration from everywhere – not just other computer games!

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Work Flow

No set work flow!

Initial Idea/Work for Hire

Flesh Out Idea/Flash Prototype

Self Fund? Publisher? Costs!

Who should we work with…?

Make Game!

Focus Testing & Testing

Marketing

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Design Principles

Fun!

Accessible

Keep things simple!

Surprise the player

Reward rather than punish

Be open to whimsy

Don’t be precious about ideas

Playfulness

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