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Space Frontier 2: Game Design in Depth
Space Frontier 2: Game Design in Depth
A detailed look at the game mechanics underlying Space Frontier 2
Nov. 9, 2018
Le Flambeau: A successful recipe to stir up our local game developer community
Le Flambeau: A successful recipe to stir up our local game developer community
It can be difficult to invigorate a local community of game developers, but the benefits to a dynamic and tight-knit community are too numerous to pass on. Le Flambeau is a low effort solution that helped bring together game developers in our city.
Nov. 9, 2018
The Story behind The Truth: Designing a Data Model
The Story behind The Truth: Designing a Data Model
The rationale and design goals behind the data model we use in The Machinery.
Nov. 8, 2018
The Making of Cinderella VR
The Making of Cinderella VR
A dev diary for Cinderella VR, just released today. Choosing a concept, planning, learning VR & Unity, making minigames, 2D art and animation, voices, budgets, shipping, etc. Lessons learned from making an indie VR game. Sketches & screenshots too.
Nov. 8, 2018
Building an immersive soundscape in Shadow of the Tomb Raider - full Q&A
Building an immersive soundscape in Shadow of the Tomb Raider - full Q&A
Here's the full 5000+ world Q&A with Shadow of the Tomb Raider audio director Rob Bridgett and composer Brian D'Oliveira, digging into the tools and techniques the pair used to create a soundscape fuelled by fear.
Nov. 8, 2018
Postmortem: Shiny Shoe’s Death’s Door: Aftermath
Postmortem: Shiny Shoe’s Death’s Door: Aftermath
A Postmortem of Shiny Shoe's streaming only game Death's Door: Aftermath. Learn more about the creation of a game intended to be played entirely by stream audiences on Microsoft's Mixer platform.
Nov. 8, 2018
My Time at Telltale Games
My Time at Telltale Games
I worked QA at Telltale games during Tales from the Borderlands, Game of Thrones, and Minecraft. I was a regular QA tester, and it was my first job in the industry.
Nov. 7, 2018
Conflict0: Revolution - Designing an Intelligent Artificial IntelligenceÂ
Conflict0: Revolution - Designing an Intelligent Artificial IntelligenceÂ
This post cover through the lens of a game designer the way we created a fun to interact with Artificial Intelligence in our last turn-based strategy title.
Nov. 7, 2018
Cultural Concepts as Principles of Design
Cultural Concepts as Principles of Design
What makes Breath of the Wild uniquely Japanese? This article examines how cultural concepts can be used to guide game design.
Nov. 7, 2018
How Worldbuilding Elevates Video Games and Fandom
How Worldbuilding Elevates Video Games and Fandom
Worldbuilding may not sound that important to videogames, but we're going to look at how three games have engaged their fans and helped to elevate their franchises.
Nov. 7, 2018
No More Tutorials! How to Convey Information Through Design
No More Tutorials! How to Convey Information Through Design
If you play video games, odds are that you have slogged through countless boring tutorials. What if I told you there was a better way to teach your players than to front-load them with too much info? This article looks at how to teach through design.
Nov. 7, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: Diablo's Deltarune... To The Stars? 2
Video Game Deep Cuts: Diablo's Deltarune... To The Stars? 2
This week's highlights include the top news from Blizzcon around Diablo and other devilish titles, Toby Fox's Deltarune & his radical transparency, and Marty O'Donnell talking 'The Music Of The Spheres', among many other great stories & videos.
Nov. 5, 2018