Level Design – CONTROL500

SpeedRunners is a competitive platformer game on Steam and Xbox One. The game is to out-run your opponents, and a central theme of the controls and level design is to always keep up momentum! There are no harsh... Read More...

Making The Last of Us’ Iconic Giraffe Scene

By John Sweeney (Naughty Dog)

Meeting the giraffe in The Last of Us is for many players the emotional peak in an already emotional journey. Concept Artist John Sweeney tells... Read more →

A Handcrafted Feel: ‘Unexplored’ Explores Cyclic Dungeon Generation

By Joris Dormans

Stop creating branching paths, start using cyclic dungeon generation. Your levels will feel so much more hand crafted. Read more →

Explosions In Vlambeer’s Nuclear Throne

By Jan Willem Nijman (Vlambeer)

Take a look at the trailer above, and you’ll see that Nuclear Throne is in essence an action game. That’s what we do at Vlambeer,... Read more →

Puzzle Positioning in Metrico: A Puzzle in itself

By Roy Van De Mortel (Digital Dreams)

As a level designer there is nothing more satisfying than having a solid puzzle idea inexplicably popping into your head that needs only few iterations to be... Read more →

The Eyes Of ibb & obb • Blink For Emotion

By Richard Boeser (Sparpweed)

Legs, a body and eyes. Both ibb and obb lack other features. They need legs to run and jump around. A body so they can... Read more →

The challenges of designing games for Pillo

By Ard Jacobs

Pillo is a new intuitive and comfortable interface for controlling games, in the shape of a pillow. Sounds cool, right? And it is! It is... Read more →

How Firewatch translated 2D concept art into a 3D open world

By Eric Bartelson

This Micro Mortem is based on the talk that Jane Ng’s, Lead Artist at Campo Santo, gave at GDC 2016 Graphic designer Olly Moss designed the... Read more →

How We Cheated Physics To Avoid Players Feeling Cheated

By Tim Baijens

When we first started with KABOUNCE, a multiplayer competitive pinball game, we tailored it to the theme of a UE4 game jam: Rocket and Roll.... Read more →

A Handcrafted Feel: ‘Unexplored’ Explores Cyclic Dungeon Generation

By Joris Dormans

Stop creating branching paths, start using cyclic dungeon generation. Your levels will feel so much more hand crafted. Read more →

Dimension Drive Puts Two Vertical Shooters On A Horizontal Screen

By David Jimenez (2Awesome Studio)

Dimension Drive is a split screen game for a single player. Game designer David Jimenez explains how putting two games next to each other opens up a world of possibilities. Read more →

Fixing the DISC ROOM design

The challenges of designing games for Pillo

How I made Circles feels intuitive without any text or tutorial

Creating Realistic Fun in Stable Orbit

A Handcrafted Feel: ‘Unexplored’ Explores Cyclic Dungeon Generation

VR Dioramas: The Illusionist’s Way of Telling Stories

Animated Cover: Better Game Design Using the Scientific Method

Designing A Believable Homemade Flamethrower For The Last of Us

How Firewatch translated 2D concept art into a 3D open world

Generating art: Turbocharge your workflow

What A Difference A Hat Makes in Boss 101

Keeping 2D Herald afloat by adding 3D

The Dream That Inspired The Nightmarish Graphics of The Intruder

Making Achievements: The Design and Art Process

A Handcrafted Feel: 'Unexplored' Explores Cyclic Dungeon Generation

How We Cheated Physics To Avoid Players Feeling Cheated

How not to lose your body parts in a networked game

Cleaning Up Clustertruck

Predicting Players: Calculated Level Design in Action Henk

Fast AI for turn-based action game Space Grunts

Keeping Up — A Smarter Camera For Munch Time 2

The Assassin’s Creed game that needed more than just a score

Creating the Dynamic Sound Design of Future Unfolding

Making the sound of Elite: Dangerous (VIDEO)

The Touching Story Behind Killzone 3’s Beautiful Menu Music

"You stand no chance", Says Vlambeer's Rami Ismail (VIDEO)

Letters from the 19th century. A $300 worldwide marketing campaign

From Cardiac Arrest to Cat Success — Remarkable Story About a Game With Famous Cats (VIDEO)

SteamSpy’s analysis of the Indiepocalypse: ‘It’s nothing new’ (VIDEO)

Extending the lifetime of Hidden Object game Home Makeover

33 on Metacritic: Why My Game Failed (VIDEO)

Football Mafia is a shameless experiment in addiction

Maintaining A Feeling Of Momentum In SpeedRunners

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