design

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How Hades plays with Greek myths

Hell to pay

Aug. 17, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

16 comments

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How Teardown made a great game from destruction

If you unbuild it, they will come

Jan. 6, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

13 comments

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How upgrading cards fuels Monster Train's wild ride

Train in vain

June 18, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

12 comments

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The difficulty with Pathologic 2's difficulty

A game about struggle

June 3, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

42 comments

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How I Wanna Run The Marathon riffed on Mario to draw a crowd

Some games are made to be watched

May 20, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

1 comment

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How Raft’s shark feeds its survival game

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya

May 6, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

7 comments

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How Untitled Goose Game made a game out of everyday items

From tulips to teapots

April 22, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

2 comments

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How American Truck Simulator recreates the grand American west

Keep on truckin'

March 25, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

19 comments

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How Hunt: Showdown creates hot, dripping tension

Wascally wabbit

March 11, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

13 comments

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How Shovel Knight's last boss was designed four times

Dig up, stupid

Jan. 29, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

News

Exclusive: two new Magic: The Gathering cards revealed - including punchy goats

Punchy goats and magic soldiers

Jan. 8, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

6 comments

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How Unity Of Command 2 balances game design with military history

Where abstraction meets accuracy

Jan. 1, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

15 comments

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How A Plague Tale: Innocence's rat hordes were made

I'll have you know they make very good pets

Dec. 18, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

13 comments

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Why you can anger the gods in Noita

Who wouldn't want to

Nov. 20, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

27 comments

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How Magic: The Gathering card sets are designed

If you go down to the woods today...

Nov. 6, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

10 comments

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How Hypnospace Outlaw's 1990s internet was made

*screaming dial-up noise*

Oct. 9, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

6 comments

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A dictionary of Baba Is You's most difficult words

DEV is HARD

Sept. 25, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

11 comments

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How Outer Wilds built a planet which falls apart

22 minutes to go

Sept. 11, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

24 comments

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

Feature creep

Jan. 30, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

21 comments

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

Jan. 16, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

12 comments

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

Tough love

Dec. 19, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

38 comments

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How a book binds the Return of the Obra Dinn

Page turner

Nov. 7, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

10 comments

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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

16 comments

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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

48 comments

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How cutting off heads got GNOG finished

The guillotine of design

Aug. 15, 2018 Alex Wiltshire

1 comment