I found some cool game design documentaries on making the Witcher games. I love watching behind the scene videos so I wanted to post them here. How it started – The Story of CD Projekt RED After watching the first video I feel like I understand why they started gog.com. Remembering the Witcher 1 and Continue Reading »
I have been wondering for a long time about what makes a game fun? Why are some games so addicting and others not? So after a lot of thinking I came up with what I think are the 4 traits that make a game fun. Let me start off by saying that everything here is my Continue Reading »
I have been doing some game design thinking lately and one topic that has been on my mine is villains. What makes memorable game villains? Can an otherwise great game become mediocre if the main antagonist is kind of lame or ordinary? And what traits make the best game villains? So, I started trying to Continue Reading »
In 2014 Casey Muratori started a live stream series called Handmade Hero. I have been following it for a while and I fully enjoy it. He is developing a professional quality game from scratch using no libraries. In the processs, he wants to teach everyone else how to do the same thing. As of this Continue Reading »
Jonathan Blow, the maker of Braid and The Witness, recently spoke at the Reboot Develop conference. The topic of his talk was about making game programming less terrible. He started off by describing what is wrong with the current world of software. He used Adobe Photoshop as the examples by showing how slow it was Continue Reading »
