Design

I like to describe how I approach game play design as skeuomorphic but for game mechanics, its like gamification that works intuitively in both the game world and real world. 

You'll see through out my designs on multiple titles that I feel the urge to tether gameplay mechanics to the real world. This is why I'm drawn to strategy games because there is plenty of room for designing systems that interact in this manner.

     You'll see most of my designs make everything more dynamic, mostly making trade offs where the player must take a bonus with a malice. This is one of my favorite design styles. Always having a cost associated with a potential gain makes the players choice carry more weight,
and with that added weight the player is able to build more structured heuristics about the game and his/her choices in it. It also makes the game harder to put down as the they anticipate the desire to see how their choice pays off down the road - feeding that "just one more turn" addiction.

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      I am also well aware that this style can lead to a potential pit fall of the player being over whelmed with too much information or too many choices,that's where my strength with my own made up definition of skeuomorphic game play designs comes into play. When the whole system is intuitive, you can layer in these added weights in a way that is not overwhelming and while being built on the players existing mental model.