Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has detailed the process of writing design documents and how to avoid situations where people are making different games despite working on the same team. Here are some professional tips from one of the most recognized RPG developers.

Morality is a great tool for game designers that adds depth and complexity to player decisions. So how do we transform morality into game mechanics? Let’s take a look at a few games that have done this well.

Mark Brown, creator of the Game Maker’s Toolkit blog, has announced that his latest project Platformer Toolkit has reached a new milestone. It is an interactive video essay where the player has to fix a bad platformer.

Game design critic Josh Bycer discusses what makes a good horror game. He also wrote a whole book on the subject!

Naughty Dog’s Lead Designer Arnaldo Licea discusses how the flooded mall level was created for The Last of Us Part II.

In this article, Michał Malewicz, UX designer and CEO of digital design and development agency HYPE4, discusses the UI of Deathloop by Arkane Studios.

There is a practice in the movie industry when authors sell so-called “options” to the rights of their stories. Squeaky Wheel CEO Ryan Sumo has explained how game companies could adopt the same approach, so game designers could see more of their ideas come to life.

Josh Bycer analyzes Resident Evil Village’s combat and exploration systems.

Yesterday the planet celebrated the Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Developer and lecturer Alan Zucconi put together a thread with some links to resources on accessibilty in games.

On June 8-11, the Talents In Games conference will go live bringing together over 2,000 game developers.

Eliza is the latest title from Zachtronics that took everyone by surprise. In contrast to the programming puzzle games the studio is famous for, Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it.

Pathologic 2 developed by Ice-Pick Lodge is an open-world survival thriller set in a town that’s being consumed by a deadly plague. Its cheerful tagline “You can’t save everyone” pretty much says it all.

Audio designers who worked on Creative Assembly’s hit Total War: Three Kingdoms wrote a post on Gamasutra on creating the audio for the game.

On April 4th, a German indie studio called GrizzlyGames released Islanders, an atmospheric minimalist city builder. The game immediately got warm reception from critics and very positive reviews on Steam. Valve listed it among 20 top-selling games of April 2019.