Game Design Has Become a Game
To a game designer, everything is game design … including game design: The most exclusive game on Facebook is also…
Test Tube Baby
Test Tube Baby — T-shirt design by Patrickspens. Via Laughing Squid. This should be a game! Won’t someone think of…
GameInternals
Now this is inspiring — ! GameInternals: all theory, no practice GameInternals aims to spread knowledge of interesting game mechanics…
Alphabetical – A Video Game Alphabet
Alphabetical by Maicon Costa. Via Laughing Squid.
Synergon, the BLARP From Hell
Synergon: “Where dreams come to die” Synergon was conceived as a satire of office culture and corporate-speak, but expressed in…
Sons of Pong
In the beginning was Pong. And in the beginning it stood alone. But not for long …. In September 1972,…
The Art of Self-Balancing
Stephen Harkleroad recently posted a thoughtful essay about designing gameplay balance using principles of self-balancing: One of the trickier parts…
Anonymous Public USB Dead Drops
“You Can’t Tell Your USB from a Hole in the Wall.” Aram Bartholl is mortaring USB drives into walls, curbs,…
Get Lamp
“Digital historian Jason Scott has an eclectic portfolio. At Textfiles.com, he collects files and related materials from the era of…
Infiltration
“Javascript- and browser-based games offer a very low barrier of entry.” — Zach Johnson Indie-game developer Zach Johnson is the…