🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m... After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here. In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.

The boundaries is where the interesting things happen!

@foddy.net @gcuzzillo.bsky.social @maxiboch.bsky.social on designing Baby Steps. “Making it interesting to get lost is a big creative challenge.” #gamedev #gamedesign

New Paper: Game Design is Generative Design. Designing a procedural generator and designing a game share a lot of skills, problems and philosophies, even if we think of them as distinct. I try to connect them here, for good! Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

On #silksong ‘s surprisingly complex damage calculations: #gamedev #gamedesign

Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.

New on GMTK - let's talk about the power of prototyping - youtu.be/8tHJgtbj6rs

@oskarstalberg.bsky.social’s excellent presentation on efficient and flexible tile-based procedural generation: #gamedev #gamedesign

It is time to shout about fun in a car park // What is Fun? A Game Design Introduction youtu.be/56ENqlUST9U

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

Old but always makes me smile. Appreciate your testers: #gamedev

I love mock-ups so much. It was my first job in the game industry, and it's still what I love doing the most. You learn so much from making these, throwing out ideas quickly, finding opportunities and ideas, at no risk and low cost. #gamedesign #gamedev

Mildly condescending BBC visit to uniformed Shigeru Miyamoto at work in the 90s: #gamedev #gamedesign

Make your dream castle! www.slynyrd.com/blog/2025/7/... #pixelart #tutorial

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The Making of Wolfenstein We revisit the team at MachineGames to discuss the design and development of their Wolfenstein series. From narrative design to combat and everything in between. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/E189QG28rnE

This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games. A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

Design Dive returns to @aiandgames.com for this short but fun analysis of narrative design in Donkey Kong Bananza. Pauline's emotional journey is the real heart of the game's story. With the narrative team relying on a game AI bark systems that react to player progress. youtu.be/DyGYxtJL_GM?...

@indiegameclinic.bsky.social on prototyping, feasibility testing, and game design intuition: #gamedev #gamedesign

Jonathan Blow on filling the emergent space created by interacting game mechanics: #gamedev #gamedesign

Game devs on what people get wrong about game dev: #gamedev #gamedesign

Today I'm musing about the importance of escalation in adventure stories & ttrpg sessions. Trying to come up with a list of possible ways to escalate. Mostly interested in the broad categories. In the following posts you can find what I came up with so far. Let me know what I am missing. #gamedev

@slynyrd.bsky.social on pixel perfect parallax: #gamedev #gamedesign

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

Reservoir Sampling, a technique for selecting a fair random sample when you don't know the size of the set you're sampling from samwho.dev/reservoir-sa... #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

few things are as good as a proper shader. i love this shit.

The discourse around the design of Blue Prince has been fascinating, but I wanted to hit room 46 before weighing in. Minimal spoilers! youtu.be/BItfjfaqW2Y Also: how it fares as an information game, and how it overlaps with our next game idea.

Announcing my next game!🤘 "Deedlee Doo! Carkour!"🔥 -A game where you do parkour with a car using explosions 🚗💥 -Everything in the game is made out of clay in real life🎨 -The sound effects and music are all mouth sounds👄 Wishlist it now on Steam, out on May 12th, 2025!🎸

Dropping a little teaser demo soon. Keep an eye on Keymailer (and inboxes) :) store.steampowered.com/app/3708790/...

Today’s video turned out a bit of a monster; some reflections on genre, mode and mood in games, and how certain ways of categorising games can be confusing or unhelpful in the design process. youtu.be/3KJbYdNP5js?... #gamedev #gamedesign #indiedev

Atlus's Kenichi Goto on designing turn-based combat for Metaphor: ReFantazio: #gamedev #gamedesign

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ In the forth episode of our Dwarf Fortress Series we revisit the brothers two years after launch to explore the ways in which their lives have changed forever, and the ways in which they've stayed the same. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zg...

Will you wishlist Replicube? “Signs point to yes” s.team/a/3401490

@slynyrd.bsky.social on the pixel design of the dreaded 8-direction 3/4 top down projection character: #gamedev #gamedesign

This is exactly the kind of reporting I was hoping for when I subscribed to Aftermath aftermath.site/ai-video-gam...

Building AI behaviors for flying/swimming machines in Horizon Forbidden West. David Speck (Guerrilla) breaks down Waterwing combat, movement & nav across air and water. Go watch the video—this one’s packed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dgH...

Procedural animation: inverse kinematics blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/twobone/ #gaamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #cpp

Watch the fourth and final episode of our Dwarf Fortress series right now on Patreon. A massive thanks to the hundreds of new members who have signed up to support us during the run of this series. As an independent team doing fairly niche work, every penny counts. www.patreon.com/posts/125850...

Hidetaka Miyazaki on design direction for Dark Souls: #gamedev #gamedesign

Check out this new article by @tanyaxshort.bsky.social on Disobedient Game Design, a short summary of the findings from the Polaris Game Design Retreat. 📃 Read on the Kitfox Medium account: kitfoxgames.medium.com/5245fbc0b774

New video on Outer Wilds. I examine the game from a design and philosophical perspective, attempting to place it among similar games (Majora’s Mask). It is also a meditation on loops, liminal spaces, and the distances we travel to arrive where we are meant to be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISm6...

Hidetaka Miyazaki on game design decisions behind the Bloodborne spiritual successor Duskbloods: #gamedev #gamedesign

missed our talk on civ vii’s narrative system? saw it but want to relive the magic before it gets added to the vault? well you are in luck! www.gamedeveloper.com/design/how-c...

How TUNIC started as an original concept versus how it ended 👌🦊 #indiedev #tunic #tunicgame

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ In the second episode of our Dwarf Fortress series we tell the story of how this free ASCII game survived 16 years of development thanks to a remarkable community. And the circumstances which pushed the creators to commercialize it. youtube.com/watch?v=PiNe...

"It's not about what the fog is obscuring, but why it's obscuring it at all." Story by @brandonrchinn.bsky.social. #Art #GameDesign #GameDev #RetroGaming #ArtDesign

Achieving 'creative sobriety' in game design - 'To achieve creative sobriety, you need to look into yourself and understand your own experiences and constraints.' www.gamedeveloper.com/design/achie... #GameDev

Orro Evolution #pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #hollowknight #celeste #metroidvania

[🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️] The Origins of Dwarf Fortress WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV2... In the first episode of our four-part series we explore the pre-history of Dwarf Fortress and how two brothers embarked on the game design journey of a lifetime.

@veritasium.bsky.social explores what game design and game theory can reveal about being human: #gamedev #gamedesign

A great video by @PatrickHaslow as he does a restrospective review on Starwars Dark Tide & he is just a wealth of knowledge so please go check out more of his work as I know he puts a lot of time into sharing his thoughts #gamedev #gamedesign #leveldesign