Game Design

Game Design

A Thousand Faces, A Thousand Logs

On the meaning of video game interaction and its emerging collision with generative AI

Game Design

What Does Elegance Mean in Game Design?

Exploring the elegant

Game Development

A View from the Other Side of the Screen

A game development journey

Opinion

The Problems with Piecemeal DLC

How Terror From the Void pieces it together

Review

Mouse P.I. for Hire Is a Pretty Face, but Not Much to Shoot For

Negative Noir

Game Design

The Gameplay of Gacha

Why Gacha games still show no signs of stopping

Interview

From Scratch to Space: Interviewing Max Trest About Astrolander

Building big ideas with Max Trest from Lost Cartridge Creations

Opinion

Thoughts on Being a First-Time Game Design Consultant

Observing game development from the outside-in as a first-time game design consultant

Game Design

The Quest for Knowledge in The Witness

Deep understanding of a deep game

Opinion

Trust, Tension, and Touch: The Tactile Terror of Little Nightmares III

Some games get under your skin through story. Little Nightmares III uses something far closer to the bone.

Opinion

Hotel Barcelona Is Video Game Counterculture

Swery65 and Suda51 create the ultimate video game punk rock

Interview

Stewpots and Space Travel: An Interview With Takuma Okada

Chess, conches, and game jams, oh my