Cigarette Black Markets in Prisons
An idea that is begging — begging! — to be made into a game: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em:…
TLBB Boss Illustrator Interview
“Generally speaking, there are three types of bosses that appear in games, the cute-type, abominable-type and fantasy-type.” — Ying Shi…
Red Dead Redemption
I am impressed — wowed! — by Red Dead Redemption. Okay, okay: I haven’t actually played (or seen) the game…
Videogame Tax Breaks
This is interesting news: tax breaks for the videogame industry: The government has finally recognised the importance of the games…
Replacing Grades With XP
In a game design class at Indiana University, traditional grades have been replaced by Experience Points: Students of Indiana University’s…
Maryland Budget Game
I have a longstanding interest in games with practical real-world applications. For example, this budget balancer game, where you try…
The Massively-Multiplayer winter getaway
In this time of white-out blizzards and severe cabin fever, many of us look for engaging mental getaways that don’t…
City of Heroes Architect
Joe Morrissey, a Senior Designer at Paragon Studios, discusses City of Heroes Architect — a system that lets users generate…
Snake Game Design Question
Stack Overflow is a useful resource for programmers — a repository of individual questions and collective responses, by and for…
Arnie Katz Interview
From an interview with Arnie Katz, co-founder of Electronic Games magazine, the first magazine dedicated entirely to video games: Gamasutra:…