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Deep Dive: Optimizing a fully spray-painted world in Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti ParadiseDeep Dive: Optimizing a fully spray-painted world in Bombing!! 2: A Graffiti Paradise

"Painting everywhere is a technically expensive thing to do, and it can be very difficult to achieve if you’re not entirely focused on it as a goal of your project."

byDevon Wiersma

May 25, 2023

13 Min Read

Book Excerpt: The Game Writing Guide Book Excerpt: The Game Writing Guide

May 23, 2023

12 Min Read

Deep Dive: A step-by-step look at the production pipeline of RavenlokDeep Dive: A step-by-step look at the production pipeline of Ravenlok

byVanessa Chia, Danielle Magpayoand 1 more

May 18, 2023

8 Min Read

A screenshot from Interior Worlds show a dark room lit by neon strip lighting, as a set of hands hold a camera.

Building a sense of atmospheric dread with the liminal spaces of Interior Worlds Building a sense of atmospheric dread with the liminal spaces of Interior Worlds

May 16, 2023

5 Min Read

A screenshot from the game God of Rock, depicting an Elvis-inspired character.

Deep Dive: Balancing the genre-bending beats of God of RockDeep Dive: Balancing the genre-bending beats of God of Rock

May 11, 2023

7 Min Read

A screenshot from Passpartout 2 depicts a canvas and tools with a picture of a large frog wearing a beret painted on it.

Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist helped its developers reignite a love for art Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist helped its developers reignite a love for art

May 9, 2023

7 Min Read

A large skeleton hitchhikes on a desert road between two plateaus against a night sky.

Why you and your game will benefit from theme driven design

Why you and your game will benefit from theme driven design

byJohnnemann Nordhagen

A title screen for the game Wizard With a Gun.

Deep Dive: How the composer of Wizard With A Gun brought cowboys and wizards together

Deep Dive: How the composer of Wizard With A Gun brought cowboys and wizards together

A screenshot from Slime Rancher 2 depicts a snow globe on a snowy cliffside.

Deep Dive: How Slime Rancher 2's snow particle interaction system got players ready for winter

Deep Dive: How Slime Rancher 2's snow particle interaction system got players ready for winter

byEdward del Villar

A screenshot from the game Teslagrad 2 shows a forest scene set with misty evergreen trees.

Deep Dive: Looking back at the making of Teslagrad 2

Deep Dive: Looking back at the making of Teslagrad 2

byPeter Wingaard Meldahl

How speedy implementation fed the fast-paced platforming of Pizza Tower

How speedy implementation fed the fast-paced platforming of Pizza Tower

Deep Dive: Balancing the authentic culinary experience with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

Deep Dive: Balancing the authentic culinary experience with Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

byDiane Quenet, Antoine Cazayus

A sepia-toned piece of art from the game Rain World: Downpour, depicting a city of dead machinery against a cloudy sky.

Channeling calm and creating new ways to play in Rain World: Downpour

Channeling calm and creating new ways to play in Rain World: Downpour

A piece of key art from the release of Romancelvania.

Put your trope down, flip it, and reverse it: Fulfilling and subverting archetypes in Romancelvania

Put your trope down, flip it, and reverse it: Fulfilling and subverting archetypes in Romancelvania

byAmanda Gardner

A surreal screenshot from the game depicts a strange green moon with a human face against a black and purple smoke background.

Technological limits as a creative strength with surreal '90s AI simulator Strange Aeons

Technological limits as a creative strength with surreal '90s AI simulator Strange Aeons

Deep Dive: 5 lessons learned from 10 years of Ingress

Deep Dive: 5 lessons learned from 10 years of Ingress

byMichael Romero

Deep Dive: Curating the audio of Slime Rancher 2's Song of the Sabers update

Deep Dive: Curating the audio of Slime Rancher 2's Song of the Sabers update

the hero characters encounter a jester character onstage

Deep Dive: How one design decision totally reinvented co-op in Figment 2

Deep Dive: How one design decision totally reinvented co-op in Figment 2

byKlaus Pedersen, Niels Højgaard Sørensen

a dark-haired character glares at you, their arms crossed

Butterfly Soup 2 and creating games to help your past self

Butterfly Soup 2 and creating games to help your past self

Book Excerpt: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games

Book Excerpt: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Video Games

byKaitlin Tremblay

a person sits with a pulley system in each hand, using it to guide a plane's flight on the screen in front of them

Paper Glider uses a pulley controller to create a feeling of flight

Paper Glider uses a pulley controller to create a feeling of flight

a pillar-lined hallway in a brilliant white city, water pooling at your feet

Neon White and designing for player creativity

Neon White and designing for player creativity

a person walking toward a ship as a snowstorm blows around

The real journeys that informed South of the Circle's vision of Antarctica

The real journeys that informed South of the Circle's vision of Antarctica

A map of generated land, with water and geographical features

How Tarn Adams upgraded and optimized Dwarf Fortress for its official Steam release

How Tarn Adams upgraded and optimized Dwarf Fortress for its official Steam release

a person with a microphone in a recording booth

How We Are OFK draws from the imaginative places that music creates

How We Are OFK draws from the imaginative places that music creates

a person with a bulky cloak around her shoulders with a ship in the background

How Citizen Sleeper was inspired by tabletop RPGs and gig work

How Citizen Sleeper was inspired by tabletop RPGs and gig work

a glass dome being attacked by dark alien creatures

How Dome Keeper focuses on systems that feed into one another

How Dome Keeper focuses on systems that feed into one another

an axe held aloft over a stump controller

Stump'd! has an axe swinging, raccoon flinging controller

Stump'd! has an axe swinging, raccoon flinging controller

a person hunched over, a hand over their mouth as light shines behind their head

Turning relationship memories into mysterious puzzles with Mind Diver

Turning relationship memories into mysterious puzzles with Mind Diver

a house structure in surreal red tones

Roche Limit is a dark, surrealist pixel art game that runs entirely in PowerPoint

Roche Limit is a dark, surrealist pixel art game that runs entirely in PowerPoint

a person dressed all in white walks through the snow near an old stone building

Creating eerie investigations through snowy footprints in Gevaudan 1851

Creating eerie investigations through snowy footprints in Gevaudan 1851

a person pulls on a stick controller that is attached to an electromagnet while a cat plays on a screen

Funny Kitty Stick simulates cat play time with electromagnetic controllers

Funny Kitty Stick simulates cat play time with electromagnetic controllers

a person sitting on a table holding the reigns of a cardboard horse head

Attack of the Bric-a-Brac inspires people to create unique controllers

Attack of the Bric-a-Brac inspires people to create unique controllers

a massive chandelier gives off red light into an empty ballroom

Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying at Sea explores the unknowable shape and feel of the afterlife

Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying at Sea explores the unknowable shape and feel of the afterlife

A dwarf in a cave with a sign that says "you won't get it up the steps"

Deep Dive: The making of Colossal Cave

Deep Dive: The making of Colossal Cave

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