Our design columnist Tom Armitage on why landscape gardening is a better analogy than architecture for videogames—a discipline about guiding the player without access to a rulebook.
The little things that make up our daily routine became so because of good design. And we love them because they’re simple, inobstrusive and convenient. Likewise, the rise of social and mobile gaming have made videogames more accessible, despite the design drawbacks which still plague the genres. To