Sam Novak

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Co-Founder of itembase.dev Helping game designers move beyond spreadsheets when designing items, progression, and game economies.

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Sam Novak

1d ago

Game Simulations Are Not About Realism. They Are About Better Design Decisions

A lot of teams hear simulation and think:

  • more realism

  • more complex AI

  • better physics

That s usually the wrong goal.

A good simulation isn t valuable because it s realistic.
It s valuable because it creates meaningful outcomes.

Sam Novak

4d ago

Game Designer's new Tool - Itembase.dev

Hey everyone

I m building itembase.dev a tool for game designers to structure and manage item data, progression, and economy systems more cleanly.

The idea came from a simple problem: a lot of game design workflows around items, balancing, and progression still end up spread across messy spreadsheets, docs, and ad hoc systems. That makes iteration slower and harder than it should be.

With itembase.dev I want to make it easier to:

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