#game-design

#game-design

Fleischer has been working for MTG publisher Wizards of the Coast for 14 years, and for most of that time, he's been trying to make Edge of Eternities. His original concept was inspired by the classic Flash Gordon comics published in the 1930s and '40s, with an Art Deco style to match. "I had a retro sci-fi vision," Fleischer recalls. "People said, 'It's not quite right yet.' But I kept pitching it. I knew eventually we'd get there."

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is the first game to introduce real-time combat in the franchise, moving away from turn-based battles which have been a staple for decades.

"If you're unfamiliar with mocap, it's a complex process of capturing movements of objects of people, and then translating that onto the game's 3D models."

In Time Flies, you have exactly 76.4 seconds to live, at least if you're living in the United States. When the game begins, it asks you to select your country, and its average life expectancy turns into how many seconds you have until your fly avatar perishes.

Portal will allow players to create custom game modes, with significant improvements for Battlefield 6, enabling them to design entire maps and earn XP.

In Luto, you play a character stuck in an emotional rut and a literal loop. Waking to a smashed bathroom mirror, protagonist Sam exits into an L-shaped hallway, passes some locked doors, heads down the stairs, and out the front door.

A recent report indicates that the number of games on Steam disclosing the use of generative AI has skyrocketed by 700% within a year, increasing from around 1,000 to nearly 8,000.

"The indie game market is projected to reach $4.85bn in 2025 and $9.55bn by 2030, with mobile games accounting for half of all revenue."

"I hate words," she tells me. "I'm so bad at expressing myself through words, and I want to get a lot better at it because I'm making TikToks right now, and I've realised I'm not good at figuring out what to say on the fly consistently. So I think a lot about communicating things in pictures or storyboards."

Paper Mario: The Origami King celebrates its five-year anniversary today, reflecting a complex legacy that mixes platforming joy with RPG storytelling elegance and humor.

The Crash Bandicoot remake got almost everything right. Except the most important 30 milliseconds. Vicarious Visions completely botched how jumping works.

Overall, we've made a few changes to the game so we could cast skating in a more positive light. Our old Canadian friend is not gone, he has just learned some much-needed bladder control. There is even a pro goal where you can help him hydrate.

In Algae Inc., 1-4 players are challenged over 60-120 minutes to competitively create bio-fuels, toothpaste, nori, and biodegradable cups as part of four asymmetric departments.

Playing Blue Prince alone can feel overwhelming due to the vast amount of information required for solving puzzles, making note-taking essential and time-consuming.

From a traditional dating sim standpoint, you usually choose one route, one lover, and you go with that. This is a game that celebrates polyamory by definition—you are dating everything.

Anger Foot is a tremendously difficult action romp that navigates through cartoonish aesthetics and over-the-top presentations, emphasizing the humor found in player failures.

"The 'pretend you won' option in Death Stranding 2 allows players to bypass frustrating encounters without penalties, emphasizing engagement with enjoyable game parts."

"Games haven’t really plumbed the depths of how we handle death, more than sort of a consequence of our actions."

The 2005 'Batman Begins' game laid the groundwork for the Arkham series, proving that licensed games can excel with the right development and passion.

There's a fine line between a game with a lot going on and one with way too much going on. Dice Gambit brilliantly walks that line.

Prison of Husks effectively combines tightly coiled level design with a dreamlike aesthetic, capturing the essence of exploration and discovery inherent to its inspirations.

Fortnite on the original Nintendo Switch felt outdated and limiting, often struggling with performance and graphics quality, hampering gameplay experience.