How not to lose your body parts in a networked game
Antegods is an action-packed arena game in which two teams of four players each control customizable stonepunk mechs to hunt for energy and fight off ... Read More...
How I made Circles feels intuitive without any text or tutorial
Circles is an abstract and very minimal puzzle game. It doesn’t have any text, tutorial or score system. Instead, it teaches the player by its form an... Read More...
Designing a Prehistoric Language
In Tribal & Error you play as a robot sent back in time to help cavemen survive the ice age. In order to do that you need to learn their language ... Read More...
Crap! I’m Broke: Using Real-Life Experiences as Inspiration
Being broke and desperate for money isn’t the most enjoyable experience a person can have. Yet here at Arcane Circus we took this all too familiar sit... Read More...
Creating Realistic Fun in Stable Orbit
In my upcoming game, Stable Orbit, the player is asked to build and maintain the successor to the ISS which, in the fiction of the game, has been deor... Read More...
Column • Letting go of the Space Marines
What if we let go of the Panzer commanders and just be… ourselves?
Empathy Games: birth of a genre?
An increasing number of developers is creating games with a focus on empathy. Is this the birth of a new genre?
This should be The Future of Virtual Reality
The hardware has caught up with the ideal, but the design tenets have yet to do so. Should we look at theatre for inspiration?
EU creates new F2P-rules — this is what you think about that
New rules concerning in-app purchases take all responsibility out of consumers hands and place it firmly with developers of free-to-play games. Rightly so?
Making Players Feel At Home In Your Virtual World
Like our own world, believable virtual worlds consist of millions of seemingly insignificant details. Get it right and players will call it home.