Amp Up Your Game Design: Advanced Camera Use

Amp Up Your Game Design: Advanced Camera Use

Each camera perspective can be used and warped in different ways to accomplish different goals. In genre terms, survival horror has the widest and most unique uses of camera perspectives. There are horror games in first-person, third-person, second-person, and even 2D...
Amp Up Your Game Design: Pixel Art As Impressionism

Amp Up Your Game Design: Pixel Art As Impressionism

Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso; these old dead guys have lead me to a better understanding of video games. These famous artists have reached me from beyond the grave and taught me their secrets through their work. While painters have studied these great men for a very long...
Amp Up Your Game Design: Character Development

Amp Up Your Game Design: Character Development

In almost every society, coming of age is important. The way it’s acknowledged may change based on culture, of course; sending a kid out to kill a jaguar with his bare hands might be equivalent to turning 21 and getting smashed while urinating on public property....
How To Spice Up Your Indie Game: Abstraction

How To Spice Up Your Indie Game: Abstraction

For an industry characterized by an Italian plumber that stomps on the heads of cartoonish representations of Kappa, we’re pretty repetitive. Not only in the sense of the shovelware kids games and brown first-person shooters that proliferate like cockroaches; any...