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Spatiality in Game Design
Spatiality in Game Design
A strong focus on spatiality can lead to a large variety of interesting situations, incentivize intuitive decision-making and foster depth and emergence. This article describes a few outstanding examples of spatial gameplay design.
Jan. 7, 2019
What Bandersnatch Teaches About the Illusion of Choice
What Bandersnatch Teaches About the Illusion of Choice
Black Mirror's "Bandersnatch" episode recently debuted, and offered viewers a lesson on the illusion of choice that developers have to deal with.
Jan. 3, 2019
Kliuless #16: 2018 Year in Review
Kliuless #16: 2018 Year in Review
Each week I compile a gaming industry insights newsletter that I share with other Rioters, including Riot’s senior leadership. This edition is the public version that I publish broadly every week as well. Opinions are mine.
Jan. 2, 2019
4 Ways my Gaming Habits Changed in 2018
4 Ways my Gaming Habits Changed in 2018
An alternative to a top games list for 2018.
Jan. 2, 2019
Video Game Deep Cuts: End Of The Year Extravaganza 2
Video Game Deep Cuts: End Of The Year Extravaganza 2
This week's video game article & video highlights include another gigantic chunk of 'end of year' charts, discourses, thoughts and ruminations.
Dec. 31, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Best Of The Best Of The Year 2
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Best Of The Best Of The Year 2
This week's highlights include a multitude of 'best of' lists of the top games of the year - from video through group round-ups to individual highlights.
Dec. 24, 2018
5 signs that you're compromising your approach to Quality
5 signs that you're compromising your approach to Quality
Is the game that your working on got that general buggy feeling or do you have Quality all sown up for your project? Read on for the signs that show you're compromising your approach to Quality.
Dec. 19, 2018
Reading by Gaslight: A look inside Sunless Skies' UI redesign
Reading by Gaslight: A look inside Sunless Skies' UI redesign
Tobias Cook, artist at Failbetter Games, shares some of the thinking behind the UI redesign featured in Sunless Skies' penultimate Early Access update, prior to the game's full launch in January 2019.
Dec. 19, 2018
What Isn't Game Design
What Isn't Game Design
Bobby Lockhart does a little reflection on the definition of design and the place of games in the wider practice of capital-D Design.
Dec. 19, 2018
Create your own Inverse Dynamics in Unity
Create your own Inverse Dynamics in Unity
Looking to add some physics to your player's avatar, your game enemies, or NPC's? This article will show you how to implement humanoid physics into your Unity game.
Dec. 19, 2018
Part 1, Putting into play - A model of causal cognition on game design.
Part 1, Putting into play - A model of causal cognition on game design.
How our thinking works when putting the thoughts into play towards the desired goal in the making of an engaging and dynamic game system.
Dec. 18, 2018
20 tips when applying for a junior artist position
20 tips when applying for a junior artist position
Some pieces of advice I would have liked to receive when I was fresh out of school and applying for junior artist positions.
Dec. 18, 2018