Playtesting: Making Your Game by Breaking Your Game
Nice video tutorial about the how’s and why’s of playtesting: When you’re running a playtest, don’t talk at all unless…
Gamers imposing permanence on their decisions
“There’s been a lot of interest in Far Cry 2 recently surrounding some gamers’ attempts to impose permanence on all…
Rushkoff on creating an alternate reality game
Douglas Rushkoff talks about his participation in the making of Exoriare: I’ve written and even taught a whole lot about…
StarCraft AI Competition
StarCraft AI Competition The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition: This competition enables…
Space of Possibility and Pacing in Casual Game Design
Mark Venturelli has posted an interesting article about principles of game design structure: Designing a game is designing a space…
Happy Halloween!
Have a Happy Halloween — and be safe out there, you Trick or Treaters — or I’ll have no choice…
Game designers are undervalued
“We need to talk in terms that oscillate between code, design, opinion, bringing together the fractured, disparate roles of game…
Shadow Physics
This is very, very cool — a platform game in three-dee space using shadows to represent player and platforms ……
Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas
Martin Nerurkar has posted some interesting thoughts about level design and architectural principles: … Before I get into level design,…
Colin Northway on Game Design
At the Austin Indie Summit, game designer Colin Northway — author of the remarkable Fantastic Contraption — outlined several key…