design

How Hades plays with Greek myths

Hell to pay

Alex Wiltshire

1 year ago

18
How Teardown made a great game from destruction

If you unbuild it, they will come

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

13
How upgrading cards fuels Monster Train's wild ride

Train in vain

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

12
The difficulty with Pathologic 2's difficulty

A game about struggle

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

42
How I Wanna Run The Marathon riffed on Mario to draw a crowd

Some games are made to be watched

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

1
How Raft’s shark feeds its survival game

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

7
How Untitled Goose Game made a game out of everyday items

From tulips to teapots

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

2
How American Truck Simulator recreates the grand American west

Keep on truckin'

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

19
How Hunt: Showdown creates hot, dripping tension

Wascally wabbit

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

14
How Shovel Knight's last boss was designed four times

Dig up, stupid

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

1
Exclusive: two new Magic: The Gathering cards revealed - including punchy goats

Punchy goats and magic soldiers

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

6
How Unity Of Command 2 balances game design with military history

Where abstraction meets accuracy

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

15
How A Plague Tale: Innocence's rat hordes were made

I'll have you know they make very good pets

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

13
Why you can anger the gods in Noita

Who wouldn't want to

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

27
How Magic: The Gathering card sets are designed

If you go down to the woods today...

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

10
How Hypnospace Outlaw's 1990s internet was made

*screaming dial-up noise*

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

6
A dictionary of Baba Is You's most difficult words

DEV is HARD

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

11
How Outer Wilds built a planet which falls apart

22 minutes to go

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

25
Why Creeper World's decade-long evolution keeps getting harder

Feature creep

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

21
How 40K: Mechanicus reinvented tactics for Warhammer's cyber-monks

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

12
How Kenshi's world is designed not to care about you

Tough love

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

38
How a book binds the Return of the Obra Dinn

Page turner

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

10
The pain of designing Path of Exile’s exquisite balance of restriction and reward

Delve a little deeper

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

16
How theHunter: Call of the Wild simulates wild animals

The game's real stars are its animators

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

48
How cutting off heads got GNOG finished

The guillotine of design

Alex Wiltshire

4 years ago

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