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A collection of 70 posts

Game Design

The Clash of Choices in Game Design

Finding the balance in designing choices into your game

Hidden Gems

Hidden Gems of Game Design: Volume 12

Sifting through the noise to find Forced Showdown, Daedues, and Iron Man

Opinion

Celebrating Wild Arms: The Wild West RPG

Saluting a unique and fascinating classic

Feature

Koudelka, The Best (Lost) Survival Horror RPG

A classic RPG with a different intent than its contemporaries

Opinion

Meg's Monster Shows How Friendship Improves Our Futures

If she cries, the whole world dies

Game Development

Why Live Service Is No Longer Exciting

Not so lively service

Feature

Breath of Fire IV: The Duality of the Dragons

Celebrating the remarkable, but flawed, classic RPG

Opinion

The Subtle Art of World Building

How developers build the worlds we play and why it matters

Preview

Musings on the Diablo IV Open Beta

After years of teasing, gamers finally get their first taste of Diablo IV - and feelings are mixed

Feature

Arx Fatalis’ Magic Was Ahead of Its Time and Technology

The game’s immersive yet clumsy magic system could have been saved by the Wiimote

Game Design

Why Did Everything Become an RPG?

How abstraction took over the game industry

Review

How Meg’s Monster Demonstrates a Post-Undertale RPG World

Down the chutes to the world below

Review

Absinthia Review

Fights, friendship, and queer coming-of-age angst in a bite-sized RPG

Review

Final Profit: A Shop RPG Review

Magic, money, and a tongue-in-cheek criticism of capitalism

Review

Labyrinth of Galleria Provides a Picturesque Dungeon Crawler

Once more into the Labryinth

Feature

The Mojave Horror - The Terrifying Vaults of Fallout: New Vegas

The evils of the Vault-Tec Corporation

Review

Meg’s Monster: You Will Believe a Fiend Can Cry

Follow a subterranean monster tasked with protecting a human child who has mysterious doomsday powers

Review

Working Two Shifts With Moonlighter

Find the items, sell the items

SUPERJUMP PVP

SUPERJUMP PVP: Party-Based JRPGs

Vitor Costa and Alex Anyfantis examine the pros and cons of Japanese RPGs with party-based narrative and gameplay

Game Design

Analysing the UX Design of Elden Ring

A deep, detailed look at the user experience of Elden Ring