Trap Your Friends With Portals
Inspired by Portal and Lightbike, Trap Your Friends with Portals (and then kill them) is a multiplayer snake game with…
SEAN! – An Exploration of Anxiety
Try not to have a panic attack after your friend Sean invites you to a park and then fails to…
Storytelling in VR
Storytelling is vastly different between mediums. The most prominent shift in storytelling today comes in the form of changing from…
A Critique of Magic: the Gathering
Number ratings based out of 5 Criteria Pacing: 3/5 Each individual game is paced at the players’ discretion and skill…
Diegetics and Paratexts
In Bob Yang’s article, he explains that “diegesis” refers to the way the fictive world inside a game affects the…
Gameisms and Interactive Environments
Tom Bissel coined the term “gameism” in this article, meaning “something that makes perfect sense only in the context of…
Biker’s Paradise
Welcome to a world in which bikers rule, in which society itself is built upon the fact that everyone owns…
Designing Games for Efficiency
In “Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of Desire and Design”, Natasha Schull writes about the addictive quality that gambling games have….
Platformers – Critique and Comparison
The first platformer I played this week was BIT.TRIP RUNNER, a two-dimensional running game. The start screen has three world…
Platformers 101
The platformer game I’ll be developing for the next few weeks is inspired by my experience biking through the city….