#game-design

#game-design

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.

Pears is a word game that combines a word-finding challenge with strategic thinking. Players must use six letters to form words and find the longest combinations using pairs of letters, adding a twist to traditional word games.

"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."

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.

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.

Participants in the tabletop role-playing game 'Fight for America!' take on the roles of Jan. 6 rioters or law enforcement in a simulated attack on the Capitol.

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

Sam Bridges exemplifies the archetype of the Gruff Video Game Man, who embodies a lack of imagination in video game character design.

The demand for game designers has increased in industries outside traditional gaming, with notable spikes in technology, education, and media sectors.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard's development faced significant challenges with shifts in focus from single-player RPGs to live-service models, impacting gameplay and storytelling.

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.

Metro 2033 stands out in a genre dominated by power fantasies, presenting a methodical, tension-filled gameplay that immerses players in a haunting post-apocalyptic world.

DICE confirmed that in the next Battlefield title, players will retain the freedom to customize weapon loadouts across classes while also having class-specific advantages.

The Masamune's blade has an organic quality to it, lengthening and shortening as needed. It actually grows longer for the first time in Ever Crisis.