Category: SPSM

Step 5: Know John O’Neill (the birth of Dark Unicorn Games) John is the crucial third leg of our Dark Unicorn tripod, and without him, we’d fall down. Like Ben and I, John is a multi-class adventurer. He’s a hyper-intelligent game programmer as well as a seasoned entrepreneur and business tycoon. All absolutely vital skills […]

Step 4: Know Ben Lichius Wanna make a game like Super Powered Smash Masters? Befriend Ben Lichius as quickly as possible. No, really.  Ben Lichius is the art director at Dark Unicorn Games. Our company was established in 2016, but we’ve actually been working together off and on since around 2000 AD (gulp), which means… […]

We just received an amazing email from our printer and it has us literally dancing with excitement! For your sake’s, we’re glad you can’t see that, but you can see this: Oh, it’s happening folks!!! We’ll keep the updates coming. And if you haven’t already, be sure to Pre-Order the game. Both sets are available. […]

Step 3: Prototyping After I had identified a few different card categories, I jumped into Photoshop and put together some prototype cards so I could print them up and test ‘em out.  I like to get to the testing part as quickly as possible. I have this vision developing for the game, and I’m impatient […]

Step 2: The Concept I’ve been a game designer for twenty-five years. I’ve made card games and PC games and mobile games, console games, VR games, role-playing games, puzzle games, cheap casual games and AAA hardcore games. And I can tell you that there’s one tried and true method that game designers most often use […]