The Mechanic (Page 2)

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How Outer Wilds built a planet which falls apart

22 minutes to go

Sept. 11, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

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Why Creeper World's decade-long evolution keeps getting harder

Feature creep

Jan. 30, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

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How 40K: Mechanicus reinvented tactics for Warhammer's cyber-monks

Jan. 16, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

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How Kenshi's world is designed not to care about you

Tough love

Dec. 19, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How Bad North makes humans out of little soldiers

Live free, pike hard

Dec. 4, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How multiplayer fell into Human: Fall Flat

Standing together

Nov. 21, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How a book binds the Return of the Obra Dinn

Page turner

Nov. 7, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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The pain of designing Path of Exile’s exquisite balance of restriction and reward

Delve a little deeper

Oct. 10, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How theHunter: Call of the Wild simulates wild animals

The game's real stars are its animators

Sept. 26, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How Exapunks represents hacking without limits

"I'm in"

Sept. 12, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How Donut County's hole works

From ontology to physics fakery

Aug. 29, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How cutting off heads got GNOG finished

The guillotine of design

Aug. 15, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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Hollow Knight and the art of consistency

How to build a world where anything can happen

Aug. 1, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How a cup of coffee saved Yoku’s Island Express

A pinball platformer

July 18, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How one person created the lushly organic world of Ghost Of A Tale

From Despicable Me to indie dev

July 4, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

15 comments

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How Far: Lone Sails puts you on a journey through sound

Pilot a giant land boat

June 20, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How Destiny 2 works

Matchmaking magic

June 6, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

17 comments

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Why it feels great to hit things in Vermintide 2

Little rats and burly men

May 23, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

20 comments

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How to take SpyParty from a 1000-hour to a 5000-hour game

No limit on complexity

May 9, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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The problem with building a car in Jalopy

Game dev is hell

April 16, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

18 comments

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Why Celeste's dash feels great

Dash it all

April 3, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How Deep Rock Galactic mines fun from absolute darkness

Mining the light fantastic

March 19, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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Into the Breach's interface was a nightmare to make and the key to its greatness

The UI is your greatest weapon

March 5, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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Why revealing all is the secret of Slay The Spire's success

Blending Rogue-likes with CCGs

Feb. 19, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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How Iconoclasts makes platforming flow

Kinetic engineering

Feb. 5, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

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