Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup
I like it — using Google Sketchup to make game maps: If you’re a fan of Left 4 Dead and…
Online Mindmap Game Design – open invitation to participate
Marte at Random Tower of Games has initiated a collaborative game design project, and announced an open call for participants.…
Games and Religion
Games are about rules — codes of conduct — governing the behavior of individual players and relationships between players. Religions…
Long Term Incentive in Game Design
Over at The Game Prodigy, Brice has posted a thoughtful, extensive essay on long term incentive in game design. Excerpt:…
Game Theory: The Art Of Acting Rational
Here’s an interesting exercise in game theory: You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don’t know…
Game (Life): Video Games in Contemporary Art
I have been saying for years that games are — or ought to be — Art with a capital A.…
The Great Game Designer
Paul Spinrad has posted some interesting thoughts about game design and real-world applications: I’m fascinated at how complexity emerges from…
Bacterial Prisoner’s Dilemma and Game Theory
This might be useful as a game design paradigm: Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different…
Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!
Veteran game design Ernest Adams lists some of his favorite examples of bad game design. Here, he quotes an example…
Private Game Servers
Not everyone is content to play commercial games on commercial game servers: some enterprising individuals are motivated to set up…