How To Piss Gamers Off: Poorly Implemented Stealth
I like stealth games, even though I’m horrible at them. It’s frustrating, but I still have fun — despite how […]
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Why We're Living In The Golden Age Of Indie Games
The term “indie game” is associated to some with hipsters and bleak art games, but often they are wonderfully imaginative,
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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
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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
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Want To Be A Great Game Dev? Make A Survival Game!
Okay, so maybe it’s not really that simple. But from Castaway, to Lost, to Lord of the Flies, wilderness survival
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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;
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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
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How To Jazz Up Your Indie Game: Even More Choices
Choices are common in life, as in video games. The power of choice in life is what truly defines each
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How To Supercharge Your Indie Game: Exploration
Creating new and fantastic locations to map out and traverse is what drives me to push past the annoyance of
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How To Use Psychology To Design The Perfect Game
Have you ever sat down to casually get a few minutes of gaming in only to find yourself a couple
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How Not To Be A Completely Evil Game Designer
About ten hours into any MMO, after much optimism that the game will somehow be different from others on the
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How To Jazz Up Your Indie Game: The Power Of Choice
Designing choice in games is a challenging task. It’s a topic that’s been thoroughly discussed by practically every industry pundit
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Are "Luck" Mechanics Destroying Competitive Gaming?
Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone, a digital card-collecting-game, is one of eSport’s newest icons. However, players of the game will quickly discover that
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Why Your Brilliant Game Idea Is Absolutely Worthless
“Ideas represent one tiny percentage of your game. It’s not the core. It’s only a spark—a source of motivation to