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Jonathan Blow "names" next title "Game 3," may take 20 years to create
“Be like Gravity’s Rainbow,” Blow says.
Game Design
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A conversation with Jesse Schell, author of The Art of Game Design
Or: What does Disneyland have to do with The Last of Us?
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"Work is essential. The Rifle is Near": Metroidvania and the Call of Pervasive Work
How a couple of classics outline the hard work of play.
Article
Mountain is a first step toward more human-centered game design
Easy to learn, easy to master.
Review
Shovel Knight may be retro, but it’s forward-thinking
The lures and limits of nostalgia.
Review
Bound by Flame: a game that doesn’t exist
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Monopoly should be less bad now that it’s crowdsourcing a new rulebook
Monopoly is, factually speaking, a bad game. But now the boardgame about greedy banking is trying to set things right after all those yawn-inducing living room snooze-fests, which doubtlessly soured millions of Americans to the pastime of boardgaming before they reached the age of consent. Hasbro, t
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Can the beautiful, beleaguered isometric perspective make a comeback?
Inside Xenonauts, the combat sim that hopes to try.
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Javel-ein gives you one spear and one chance
What a cruel lover you are, Javel-ein.
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Bobsledding is officially the worst Olympic sport, because math
We don’t often analyze the design of sports as closely as other types of games, but taking a closer look at some of the games at the Olympics suggests that maybe we should. Ben Blatt over at Slate looked at the statistics for Bobsledding kept by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation ba