The Mechanic

How Hades plays with Greek myths

Hell to pay

Alex Wiltshire

1 year ago

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Why Valheim wants to stop you using portals

Portals are historically inaccurate anyway

Alex Wiltshire

1 year ago

59
How The Impossible Bottle makes text adventuring accessible

Examine article

Alex Wiltshire

1 year ago

12
How Teardown made a great game from destruction

If you unbuild it, they will come

Alex Wiltshire

1 year ago

13
How Hardspace: Shipbreaker's devs made spaceships you can cut anywhere

And why they changed their minds

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

13
How Satisfactory’s developers lied to their players, and why the players loved it

Pipemania

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

22
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 animation powers Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

See through the dimensions

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

7
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 Generation Zero was fixed

334 hours played, do not recommend

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

34
How Shovel Knight's last boss was designed four times

Dig up, stupid

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

1
The unknowable chaos of physics in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Turns out that standing still is pretty hard

Alex Wiltshire

2 years ago

4
How Unity Of Command 2 balances game design with military history

Where abstraction meets accuracy

Alex Wiltshire

2 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

2 years ago

13
How Katana Zero brought action into cutscenes

Worth a thousand words

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

12
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 Guild Wars 2's mounts were made

Beasts of burden

Alex Wiltshire

3 years ago

6
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

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