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What Casino Games Can Teach Video Game Designers About Information Design

There are lots of crossovers between video game design and casino game design, and designers often use elements of the other to influence the design in their vertical. One of the m...

The Small Design Decisions That Make Games Feel Intuitive

Some of the best decisions in game design are the ones players barely notice. A health bar drops and you immediately understand that you’ve taken damage. An object changes appearan...

The Online Casinos Proving Good Game Design Starts with the Mechanics

Eye-catching graphics. Elaborate themes. A plethora of animations. Casino games might include all these elements, but they’re only part of the design. They’re not the most importan...

The Secret to The RECON 26 Game: Adaptive Design

5 design tips for large scale games The post The Secret to The RECON 26 Game: Adaptive Design appeared first on Room Escape Artist.

This tactical RPG channels a classic Sega series while putting its own spin on the retro-modern HD-2D aesthetic

How Aegis Force's dynamic camera tries to cater to two styles of tactical combat animations.

When Is a New Slot Actually New? How Designers Remix Familiar Mechanics

Video game design has long worked by holding some things steady while changing others. Control systems survive because players already understand them, while core loops hang around...

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Backgammon Game Design Needed

Design a game called backgammon the old English version where you can only stack 5 pieces. I want to call it “old English “ 5 high (Budget: £250 - £750 GBP, Jobs: Adobe Flash, Gam...

What Goes Into Designing a Soulslike?

Soulslike titles are on the rise following the success of Dark Souls, establishing its influence on modern action role-playing games and the video game industry itself. While they’...

Knight Ball

Knight Ball is a 2D arcade game mix of wall fetch and card power ups against a knight....

Why Sweepstakes Casino Games Need More Than Good Graphics to Work

Scroll through a dozen sweepstakes games and you’ll notice something quickly: they all look great. Glossy reels, animated characters, gold that practically drips off the screen. Ar...

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"Everyone has a hundred bad games in them, and we did them really quickly": Adam Vian on the creation and evolution of D...

The creative director of SFB Games tells us about developing the studio’s style from Adobe Flash games to The Mermaid Mask.

See how this point-and-click game environment was made for The Mermaid Mask

Catherine Unger shares some pro tips from her environment work on the new Detective Grimoire game.

Designing Escape Rooms Around Game Mechanics

To create something distinctive, design the experience around an engaging game mechanic. The post Designing Escape Rooms Around Game Mechanics appeared first on Room Escape Artist.

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Все уже наверняка видели посты на «Бэкдорах», «Эксплойтах» и прочих кибертопорах о том, как кто-то, особенно с выходом новой модели, естественно, в один промпт сгенерировал копию C...

Online casino studios hire artists and animators from the games industry

Character animation, motion graphics, sound design and mobile interface work are no longer confined to conventional video games. The same disciplines can appear in real-money gambl...

NexusRPG: designing persistent dungeons for a text-based browser MMORPG

Hi JoyFreak, I'm Yusuf from the development team behind NexusRPG. We have completed the full web release of our persistent text-based MMORPG, and I would like feedback on two syst...

How thatgamecompany turned Van Gogh paintings into playable spaces

Yingxian Lu reveals how the brushstroke tech predated the story, and the letters shaped Sky's Dear Van Gogh season.

How I create epic boss battle scenes without the 'fake' 3D look

Thomas Bourdon reveals the importance of defining design early and the importance of subtle 2D touches.

How to create a video game world using Blender and Photoshop

Cyril Yong Zhou outlines his approach to putting together stylised interactive environments.

Video Game Menu: The Game is all about everyone's favourite gaming pastime: pressing random buttons in the menus and see...

Tense platforming? Riveting, punchy action combat? Complex, thought provoking puzzles? Is this what we come to video games for? Of course not! It's for the menus, those sweet, swee...

What Can Be Learned From The World’s Cleanest and Most Effective Gameplay Loops?

Gameplay loops are all about keeping players coming back for more, and some are undeniably much better than others. Game designers can look at the effective gameplay loops used in...

Behind the scenes of Witchspire's spellbinding artistry

Envar Studio's game director and concept artist reveal how they crafted the new game's vast open world.