Binaural Simulation: How It Benefits Your Game
There are various elements that make up the player experience within video games. Visuals, story, level design, and audio all […]
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Balancing Act – Gameplay and Story in Roguelikes
Stories within video games are an element that takes up a decent amount of what a player will experience. Developers
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How to Design Better Quests in Game Development
If you are creating a story built on sequences of quests, you’ll need to think beyond script and storyline. There
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Pumpkin Spice Plotte: The Seven Basic Plots (Part 1)
There comes a time for every indie game dev where they reach the point where they have to string together
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The Lusty Argonian Maid & Other Tales: A Cheatsheet to In-Game Lit
So, you’re well on your way in the development process. You’ve got a really solid core gameplay loop, the controls
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Epistory Teaches Typing: Emphasizing Story Through Nontraditional Gameplay
Story is often one of the last things that gets considered when prototyping out a new game. We may have
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9 Things They Didn’t Tell Me About Being an Indie Developer
When I started working with Daniel on SanctuaryRPG, I had no idea what I was in for as an indie
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Evergreen Game Design: Aspects that Keep Call of Duty Popular
Call of Duty, as far as I can remember, has never lost steam when it came to sales, activity and
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Franchise Fatigue: When to Conclude Your Story
Overview In the gaming industry, everything is driven by the design, even the story. There are very few instances where
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Assassin’s Creed: What Could Have Been
[Warning: Contains Spoilers for Assassin’s Creed 2/Brotherhood/Revelations] As a fan, I feel that I was somewhat betrayed by the developer of
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Happy Second Birthday, Black Shell Media!
They say that 90% of startups fail in the first year. Well, for the second year in a row, I am
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Reading Between the Lines: What Passive Storytelling Teaches Us—Part 1, Submerged
Everybody knows about big AAA games, with stories befitting a box office motion picture: Telltale’s The Walking Dead for example, or
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7 Essential Elements of Effective Storytelling in Game Design
The art of storytelling is often left behind in lieu of better graphics, increasingly difficult mechanics, and character designs. While
Blog, Game Design
Game Writing 101: Creating A Good Villain
Many times, I find myself unimpressed by a game’s faulty plot. I end up feeling disconnected, uninterested and generally disappointed
Game Development
Game Design 101: Six Approaches To A Great Game
With so many great game ideas rushing from your imagination it can be hard to pin down a point of