I had just finished working on my latest card game; I was rather chuffed with it: the rules were elegant and nuanced: there was a wealth of strategies you could use in the game. I explained the rules to two friends, and they began to play. I was expecting them to be amazed with the [...]
In a previous article, we looked at the diegesis theory of interface design. The theory can also be applied to audio design. This is a look into the design of audio for games, and how diegesis theory can help us structure our thoughts.
This article looks at crunch time, its effects on the development process and the developers themselves, how to avoid it, and how to deal with it if it does come.
This article looks at the process of designing levels for a platformer: from the initial idea to the final playable level.
This article looks at common errors that can be made when implementing Perlin noise, and give systematic tests to verify for the various steps in the algorithm.
This tutorial provides some algorithms useful for working with Bézier curves: determining the length of a piece of curve; interpolating a set of points with a Bézier path; and reducing a large point set to a smooth Bézier curve.
A distillation of the five puzzle game design interviews, taking together advice from Rob Jagnow, Guy Lima, Ted Lauterbach, Teddy Lee, Dave Hall and Teddy Lee.
Hello Physics World! This is a Box2DFlash tutorial, showing the basics of using the popular Box2D port in Flash.
Teddy Lee (maker of My First First Quantum Translocater and other popular Flash games) gives us his take on puzzle game design.
In this puzzle game design interview, Dave Hall from Toxic Games tells Dev.Mag how they designed the puzzles for Q.U.B.E.
Ted Lauterbach, creator of the eerie puzzle game, suteF, answers our questions about puzzle game design.
Dev.Mag talks to Guy Lima, one of the founders of Ragtime Games, on how he and his team designed the puzzles for Continuity, the sliding-tile platform puzzler.
As part of our series of interviews on puzzle game design, we asked Rob Jagnow about his approach. Jagnow is the founder of Lazy 8 Studios, and the designer behind Cogs, the steampunk-themed sliding-tile puzzle game.
This article gives some background information on puzzle games, and sets the stage for a set of interviews on puzzle game design.
A Bézier curve is a type of curve that is easy to use, and can describe many shapes. This guide gives instructions for implementing algorithms for using Bézier curves in your games.
In this second part of analyzing Desktop Dungeons, we look at how choices are given meaning not only through their complexity, but also through the role they play in structuring an experience.
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