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A Shenmue Retrospective A Shenmue Retrospective

In honor of the Shenmue 3 kickstarter, I've dug up this piece from 2012 where I talked about my love of the series and what it did to win me over.

byJosh Bycer, Blogger

Jun 16, 2015

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The difficulty of creating difficulty The difficulty of creating difficulty

Jun 16, 2015

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Designing around a premise sentence Designing around a premise sentence

byFilip Wiltgren

Jun 16, 2015

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A 2D Level Editor in 30 Seconds A 2D Level Editor in 30 Seconds

Jun 16, 2015

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The Pitfalls of Meta Game Design The Pitfalls of Meta Game Design

Jun 16, 2015

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Designing controls for a living piece of bread Designing controls for a living piece of bread

Jun 16, 2015

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New tools for developing custom games are a focus of Dota 2 revamp

New tools for developing custom games are a focus of Dota 2 revamp

byAlex Wawro, Contributor

6 Things I Learned From My First Big Failure

6 Things I Learned From My First Big Failure

byEvan Fradley-Pereira, Blogger

11 Tips to Speed Up your Game Design Process

11 Tips to Speed Up your Game Design Process

byNathan Lovato, Blogger

On a Lack of Originality in Science-Fiction and Fantasy Game Settings

On a Lack of Originality in Science-Fiction and Fantasy Game Settings

byAlexander Freed, Blogger

Trinity, Part 2 - Choice Fields

Trinity, Part 2 - Choice Fields

byMike Stout, Blogger

Reproduction Man Dev - The Nitty, and Also the Gritty

Reproduction Man Dev - The Nitty, and Also the Gritty

byDavid Kilmer, Blogger

Sony trots out The Last Guardian at E3, promises to release it in 2016

Sony trots out The Last Guardian at E3, promises to release it in 2016

byAlex Wawro, Contributor

This Week in Video Game Criticism: From Sunset to salt

This Week in Video Game Criticism: From Sunset to salt

byKris Ligman, Blogger

Cretaceous creativity: Designing dinos for Ark: Survival Evolved

Cretaceous creativity: Designing dinos for Ark: Survival Evolved

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Action vs. Abstraction in Teaching Game Mastery

Action vs. Abstraction in Teaching Game Mastery

byJosh Bycer, Blogger

Some useful stuffs for game designer career guide

Some useful stuffs for game designer career guide

byFred Tang, Blogger

Nina - A Students Final Project Post Mortem

Nina - A Students Final Project Post Mortem

byMartin Egger, Blogger

Opinion: Cultural influence does not preclude diversity

Opinion: Cultural influence does not preclude diversity

byKatherine Cross, Contributor

Why a World of Goo dev made a puzzle game about programming humans

Why a World of Goo dev made a puzzle game about programming humans

byAlex Wawro, Contributor

The essence of Splatoon, and what it gets right

The essence of Splatoon, and what it gets right

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

The secrets of Smash Bros. play-balance, from Masahiro Sakurai

The secrets of Smash Bros. play-balance, from Masahiro Sakurai

byChristian Nutt, Contributor

What game writers can learn from Mad Max: Fury Road

What game writers can learn from Mad Max: Fury Road

byMatthew Codd, Blogger

Design disscussion about Marketland on Facebook

Design disscussion about Marketland on Facebook

byFred Tang, Blogger

Thoughts On Depth And Complexity

Thoughts On Depth And Complexity

byNikhil Murthy, Blogger

On the design of Dark Souls

On the design of Dark Souls

byDaniel Silber, Blogger

User on boarding : What do you want the user to do?

User on boarding : What do you want the user to do?

byFahim Akhter, Blogger

Multigenerational mayhem: Exploring Massive Chalice's bloodline system

Multigenerational mayhem: Exploring Massive Chalice's bloodline system

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Michitaka Tsuruta - a history of Tecmo and classic platform-puzzlers

Michitaka Tsuruta - a history of Tecmo and classic platform-puzzlers

byJohn Szczepaniak, Blogger

Overcoming Struggles In Playtesting

Overcoming Struggles In Playtesting

byPeter Angstadt, Blogger

Is your game mystery or suspense?

Is your game mystery or suspense?

byFilip Wiltgren, Blogger

Game Design as a sentence.

Game Design as a sentence.

byJerome Goomba, Blogger

Reward Me, Demotivate Me

Reward Me, Demotivate Me

bySande Chen, Blogger

Putting the Fun in Rehabilitation

Putting the Fun in Rehabilitation

byRachel Proffitt, Blogger

Design Lessons From The Witcher 3

Design Lessons From The Witcher 3

byJamie Smith, Blogger

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