Games Analysis

  1. 1 Video: Designing without a pitch - The FTL postmortem 0
  2. 2 Dark Souls - Gamasutra articles 0
  3. 3 Divinity: Original Sin Postmortem 0
  4. 4 How S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does survival right 0
  5. 5 What Indie Developers Can Learn from Minecraft 0
  6. 6 Why Left 4 Dead Works 0
  7. 7 Diablo: A classic game postmortem 0
  8. 8 Game design and mind control in Superhot 0

Combat Systems

  1. 1 On Making Good Combat Mechanics 0
  2. 2 Enemy Attacks and Telegraphing 0
  3. 3 The Fundamental Pillars of a Combat System 0
  4. 4 Game Maker's Toolkit - Redesigning Death 0
  5. 5 Surrending control without letting go: procedural character movement 0
  6. 6 Building an RPG Battle System 0

Game Design and Humanity

  1. 1 Jenova Chen / Blank Canvas Designing A New Era of Emotional Storytelling Through Games 0
  2. 2 Jonathan Blow: Video Games and the Human Condition 0
  3. 3 Understanding Human Attention and Economies of Engagement 0
  4. 4 The Future of Storytelling 0
  5. 5 Virtual Empathy & Moral Reflection In Video Games 0

Philosophy

  1. 1 Fun is a four letter word 0
  2. 2 Dynamics: The State of the Art 0
  3. 3 An Aimless Diatribe On Fun 0
  4. 4 Gameplay x playability: defining concepts, tracing differences 0
  5. 5 EC - Aesthetics of Play - Redefining Genres in Gaming (full MDA in comments) 0
  6. 6 Fundamental Components of the Gameplay Experience: Analysing Immersion 0
  7. 7 Behavioral Game Design 0
  8. 8 Flow in Games a Jenova Chen MFA Thesis 0

Movement-Controlls-Cameras

  1. 1 Climbing in Games 0
  2. 2 Gamers can't jump! (and other grumbles) 0
  3. 3 Third person camera design with free move zone 0
  4. 4 Doing Thumbstick Dead Zones Right 0
  5. 5 Getting thumbsticks to feel good 0
  6. 6 The 5 Golden Rules of Input 0
  7. 7 Game Design Deep Dive: The unique touchscreen action game controls of Helix 0
  8. 8 Designing a fluid and handy FPS movement system 0

Animation

  1. 1 12 Principles of Animation 0
  2. 2 - YouTube 0
  3. 3 5 tips for making great animations for 2D games 0
  4. 4 How To Tackle Character Design For 2D Games? 0
  5. 5 Anime/Manga - How to not suck at game design 0
  6. 6 Inkblot animation - How to not suck at game design 0
  7. 7 - YouTube 0
  8. 8 The Animation Process Of Ori & The Blind Forest 0

Level Design

  1. 1 Composition in Level Design 0
  2. 2 Clever Level Design: More than Meets the Eye 0
  3. 3 Chris Solarski / Art & Video Game Design Blog 0
  4. 4 Views and Vistas 0
  5. 5 The Invisible Hand of Super Metroid 0
  6. 6 Level Design In The Legend Of Zelda 0
  7. 7 Architecture in Video Games: Designing for Impact 0
  8. 8 Designing Better Levels Through Human Survival Instincts 0

Systems-Feedback-Economy

  1. 1 Building Tight Game Systems of Cause and Effect 0
  2. 2 A Study in Transparency: How Board Games Matter 0
  3. 3 Daniel Cook: Game Design Theory I Wish I had Known When I Started 0
  4. 4 Errant Signal - Perceivable Consequence 0
  5. 5 Loopholes in Game Design 0
  6. 6 Systems, Game Systems, and Systemic Games 0
  7. 7 7 crafting systems game designers should study 0
  8. 8 Puzzle Dependency Graph Primer 0

Kinaesthetics

  1. 1 In Praise Of Sticky Friction 0
  2. 2 Improving the Combat 'Impact' Of Action Games 0
  3. 3 Errant Signal - Kinaesthetics 0
  4. 4 "The art of screenshake" at INDIGO Classes 2013 0
  5. 5 Animation in Action Games 0
  6. 6 Good game respons to user input 0
  7. 7 Dying Light's Natural Movement system 0

Narrative

  1. 1 Unexpected Narrative in Games 0
  2. 2 The Level Design of Gone Home 0
  3. 3 Techniques for In-Level Storytelling 0
  4. 4 Thief vs. AAA Gaming 0
  5. 5 Telling Stories with Systems 0
  6. 6 Plot Is Dumb, Character Is Cool 0
  7. 7 The Self, Presence and Storytelling 0
  8. 8 Writing a more compelling game narrative 0

Game Balance

  1. 1 Metagame Balance 0
  2. 2 Balancing Multiplayer Games, Part 1 0
  3. 3 Asymmetry in Games 0
  4. 4 Game Balance Concepts (Ian Schreiber) 'lessons' 0

Character design

  1. 1 Visual Clarity in Character Design (Part 1) 0
  2. 2 Create Brief Visual Descriptions Of Characters 0
  3. 3 Patrick Jones and his female anatomy. 0
  4. 4 Behind the Scenes: Monster Creation 0
  5. 5 Breathing life into non-player characters: insights from psychological attribution 0
  6. 6 Designing and animating the heroes of Overwatch 0
  7. 7 Creating customizable characters with paper prototypes 0
  8. 8 Writing Diverse Characters 0

Tutorials

  1. 1 How to train players right, so they don't hate learning to play 0
  2. 2 Extra Credits: Tutorials 101 0
  3. 3 Half-Life 2's Invisible Tutorial 0
  4. 4 Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X 0
  5. 5 Super Mario 3D World's 4 Step Level Design 0
  6. 6 Tutorials: Learning To Play 0
  7. 7 How Rogue Legacy handles tutorials without being boring 0

AI & Enemy Design

  1. 1 Designing Awesome AI 0
  2. 2 The Recipe for Good AI 0
  3. 3 Players Want Smart Artificial Intelligence 0
  4. 4 Intelligent Mistakes: How to Incorporate Stupidity Into Your AI Code 0
  5. 5 Target Selection for AI Companions in FPS Games 0
  6. 6 Boss Battle Design and Structure 0
  7. 7 No More Wrong Turns 0
  8. 8 AI and Designers Discussion 0

Color Design

  1. 1 Color in games: An in-depth look at one of game design's most useful tools 0
  2. 2 Visual Hierarchy for Game Developers: A Practical Guide to Making Important Stuff Seem Important 0
  3. 3 Color Theory Beyond the Wheel 0
  4. 4 How to Choose Colours that Work! 0
  5. 5 Colour In Storytelling 0
  6. 6 Color Theory For Game Design 1 of 4 0
  7. 7 Pixelart Palette - How to not suck at game design 0

Player behaviour and motivation

  1. 1 Behavioral Game Design 0
  2. 2 Achievements Considered Harmful? 0
  3. 3 Changing Player Behavior 0
  4. 4 The Nature of Grinding 0
  5. 5 Errant Signal - Gameification 0
  6. 6 Internet Gaming Disorder 0
  7. 7 Reward Schedules 0
  8. 8 Play As You Learn: Gamification as a Technique for Motivating Learners 0

Depth-Complexity-Difficulty

  1. 1 Complexity vs. Depth 0
  2. 2 Evaluating Game Mechanics For Depth 0
  3. 3 Cheating in the Player's Favor 0
  4. 4 Reducing difficulty dynamically and invisibly 0
  5. 5 What Capcom Didn't Tell You About RE4 (difficulty) 0
  6. 6 Gamasutra 0
  7. 7 Gamasutra 0
  8. 8 Challenging vs. Punishing Games 0

Theatrics

  1. 1 Stagecraft in Player VS Player Games 0
  2. 2 The Useless Podcast: Episode 2 - Small Things 0

Platformer Design

  1. 1 The guide to implementing 2D platformers 0
  2. 2 Platforming Camera 0
  3. 3 Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X 0
  4. 4 The Full Spelunky on Spelunky 0
  5. 5 RetroGaming with Racketboy 0
  6. 6 Guide to Making Metroidvania Style Games 1/2 0
  7. 7 Guide to Making Metroidvania Style Games 2/2 0
  8. 8 Making Platforming Games 0

Game Labs

  1. 1 Department of Game 23
  2. 2 LIDET 5
  3. 3 Play&Game 19
  4. 4 Center for Computer Games Research 2
  5. 5 Media Lab Helsinki 5
  6. 6 Gamelab 10
  7. 7 Enjmin 0
  8. 8 OMNSH 3

Accessible Design

  1. 1 No More Excuses, Your Guide to Accessible Design 0
  2. 2 IGDA Game Accessibility SIG 0
  3. 3 Why is accessibility important 0
  4. 4 Physical Barriers in Video Games 0
  5. 5 Resetting Accessibility in Games 0
  6. 6 Oil it or Spoil it! How to improve user experience 0

Aesthetics and Environment

  1. 1 Errant Signal - Photorealism 0
  2. 2 Why High Resolution Graphics Aren't Enough 0
  3. 3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Game Aesthetics 0
  4. 4 Orwellian Environment Design in Arkham City 0
  5. 5 Surrealism and Games 0
  6. 6 Stylized Realism 0
  7. 7 Art Deco and Bioshock 0
  8. 8 Art Direction Analysis of Arkham City 0

Bad design

  1. 1 The Anatomy of a Bad Game 0
  2. 2 The No Twinkie Database! (huge list of articles) 0
  3. 3 Rules For Games: Do & Don’t #1 0
  4. 4 Rules For Games: Do & Don’t #2 0
  5. 5 Rules For Games: Do & Don’t #3 0
  6. 6 Indie Game Design Do-s and Don't-s 0
  7. 7 Seven Deadly Sins for Strategy Games 0
  8. 8 Sid’s Rules 0

Sandbox & Open World Design

  1. 1 The History and Theory of Sandbox Gameplay 0
  2. 2 Open World Issues Part 1: The Rockstar Model 0
  3. 3 Open World Issues Part 2: The Bethesda Model 0
  4. 4 Open World Issues Part 3: Trust And The Player-driven Narrative 0
  5. 5 Open World Design 0
  6. 6 Making A World Seem Open And Alive 0
  7. 7 Game Design Essentials: 20 Real-World Games 0

Mulitplayer

  1. 1 The Visual Guide to Multiplayer Level Design 0
  2. 2 GearsMultiplayerMapTheory 0
  3. 3 Bungie.net - Map Design 101 0
  4. 4 Designing FPS Multiplayer Maps 0
  5. 5 LevelCap Bashes BF4 Map Design 0
  6. 6 Why good matchmaking requires enormous player counts 0
  7. 7 Multiplayer Logistics 0
  8. 8 Scheduled multiplayer 0

Lighting

  1. 1 L4D Art Direction, Part 2: Stylized Darkness 0
  2. 2 The Darkside and the Light – The Anatomy of a Room in Mayhem In Single Valley 0

Design documents

  1. 1 design documentation archives - How to not suck at game design 0
  2. 2 User submitted doodles and sketches of games 0
  3. 3 The designer's workshop: The design document 0
  4. 4 Creating A Great Design Document 0
  5. 5 The ORIGINAL Monaco Game Design from 2003 0
  6. 6 300 game ideas/mechanics / day 0
  7. 7 How to Write a Game Design Document 0

SFX/Soundrack

  1. 1 How Music Can Intensify Video Games 0
  2. 2 Practical Audio for Indies 0
  3. 3 Game Maker's Toolkit - Adaptive Soundtracks 0
  4. 4 Arrangement for Vertical Layers Pt. 3 0
  5. 5 Creating the unique interactive soundtrack of Remember Me 0
  6. 6 Weapon Sound Design for Sci-Fi Shooters 0
  7. 7 How To Design Stellar Spaceship Sound Effects 0
  8. 8 Making of Samorost 3 Sound Design and Music 0

How I made my ...

  1. 1 Dungeon999F - Development logs 0

UI Design

  1. 1 Helping Your Players Feel Smart: Puzzles as User Interface 0
  2. 2 Video game user interface design 0

VR

  1. 1 Designing Disjointed VR Puzzles 0
  2. 2 One hour, five concentrated shots of VR game design advice 0
  3. 3 Gameplay and rendering experiments in VR 0

Game Dev advices

  1. 1 Sunless Sea Sales and Funding Deep Dive, Part I: Kickstarter 0
  2. 2 Why Kickstarters Fail and How to Avoid It 0
  3. 3 How to talk to the video game press 0
  4. 4 Manage a team right 0
  5. 5 125 things I learned while developing games 0
  6. 6 Game Design FAQs 0
  7. 7 Finishing a Game 0
  8. 8 Greenlighting a Niche Game 0

Prototyping

  1. 1 Quick and Dirty Prototyping 0
  2. 2 How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days 0
  3. 3 Training Design Students to Tackle Art Issues with Prototypes 0
  4. 4 Ori And The Blind Forest Definitive Edition 0

Designing with a community

  1. 1 A Thousand Voices: Open Game Development 0
  2. 2 Taking Desktop Dungeons from Prototype to Pre-Order to Steam 0
  3. 3 Harnessing the Power of Community-Informed Development for The Long Dark 0

Mechanics and Puzzles

  1. 1 Storytime with Jonathan Blow at PAX East 2016 0
  2. 2 Simple mechanics, complex puzzle creation 0
  3. 3 Video game mysteries (feat. Jonathan Blow / Derek Yu / Jim Crawford) 0

Youtube Ch.

  1. 1 Game Maker's Toolkit 0
  2. 2 PixelProspector.com 0
  3. 3 Extra Credits 0
  4. 4 Design Doc 0
  5. 5 Let's Talk Game Design 0
  6. 6 Game Design Zen 0
  7. 7 BauerDesignSolutions 0
  8. 8 Five Great GameDev Websites Compilation 0
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