Designing Social Play for Sky - Children of the Light
Explore social design strategies in game development, focusing on player interactions, cooperative gameplay, and fostering natural relationships within virtual environments.
Procedural Regeneration - Matching the World to the Player
Explore dynamic world alteration in games to match player styles. Learn about procedural regeneration, its benefits, and implementation strategies for enhanced gameplay experiences.
Emergent Storytelling Techniques in The Sims
Explore techniques used across The Sims generations to empower player-driven storytelling, including AI, autonomous feedback loops, and story progression systems.
The Kine Postmortem
Explore the journey of transforming a passion project into a multi-platform puzzle game, focusing on design goals, mechanics, and polish in game development.
Reading the Rules of Baba Is You
Explore the unique sentence-based rule system of puzzle game Baba Is You, its implementation, iterations, and challenges faced during development in this insightful talk by developer Arvi Teikari.
Crafting a Tiny Open World - A Short Hike Postmortem
Explore game development insights as Adam Robinson-Yu shares his journey creating "A Short Hike," discussing design choices, technical solutions, and lessons learned in crafting a small open-world game.
Storytelling with Verbs - Integrating Gameplay and Narrative
Explore how common gameplay verbs shape narrative and player experience. Learn to integrate storytelling with mechanics for coherent, engaging game design across various genres and platforms.
Designing Path of Exile to Be Played Forever
Explore game design strategies for long-term player retention and community growth, focusing on Path of Exile's successful approach to content creation and player engagement.
The Making of Divinity - Original Sin 2
Larian Studios' strategies for improving Divinity: Original Sin 2, covering game design, development challenges, and innovative features that enhanced the sequel's success.
Into the Breach Design Postmortem
Explore the design journey of Into the Breach, from early concepts to final balancing, as Subset Games co-founder Matthew Davis reveals insights on constraints, iteration, and challenging design decisions.
Level Design in Hitman - Guiding Players in a Non-Linear Sandbox
Explore level design strategies for guiding players in non-linear sandbox games, focusing on Hitman's tutorial and linear guidance system implementation.
Looking Back and Moving Forward with Pillars of Eternity
Explore the development of Pillars of Eternity, examining how Obsidian updated classic PC RPGs while honoring their legacy. Gain insights into art, mechanics, narrative, and post-launch support.
Rick and Morty - Virtual Rick-ality Postmortem - VR Lessons Learned
Explore VR game development insights from Owlchemy Labs' creators of Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Learn about room-scale design, portals, character interactions, and overcoming UI challenges in this postmortem analysis.
Design in Detail
Explore detail-oriented game design principles applicable across genres and generations, focusing on significance, power, subtlety, portability, and manageability of details in game development.
Ahead of the Curve - The SpaceChem Postmortem
Explore SpaceChem's unique design-based puzzle mechanics, community features, and development insights. Learn to create engaging puzzles and build player communities around them.
There's Goofs in Them Thar Hills - The West of Loathing Approach to Comedy in Games
Explore comedy in video games with West of Loathing's creative director, covering techniques, advantages, and challenges in crafting humor for interactive experiences.
No Man's Sky - Grit
Sean Murray shares insights on Hello Games' journey through No Man's Sky's tumultuous launch, detailing how the team's resilience and focus on improvement led to record player numbers and positive reception.
Winding Road Ahead - Designing Utility AI with Curvature
Explore intuitive AI behavior design using curvature in utility systems. Learn knowledge representation, influence data, and natural language considerations for creating dynamic game characters.
The Reinvention of Tomb Raider
Crystal Dynamics shares insights on modernizing Tomb Raider, focusing on survival elements, character development, and production strategies to create a compelling reboot of the iconic franchise.
Player Engagement - The Right KPIs for Your Game
Discover how to leverage the right KPIs and game design practices to maximize your game's potential and distinguish it from the competition.
Unity ECS for Mobile - Metropolis Traffic Simulation
Explore Unity ECS for mobile game development through a traffic simulation project, covering pathfinding, collision detection, and best practices for data-oriented programming and the C# Job System.