On Game Design and Other Things

A lot of people have thoughts and ideas about game design. For example, there's Chris Taylor, famous for the RTS Supreme Commander (and ...

StarCraft Perhaps the most definitive RTS game, ever. Consistently considered one of the best games of its genre ever. Played as a professio...

Earlier I considered the question of what game design was. This was partially in regard to the Situation Model, but it also branched out mo...

Riven: The Sequel to Myst I know; worst name on Earth. The people at Cyan probably just wanted to call it Riven, but realized that it would ...

Recently, Professor Henry Lowood of Stanford University suggested developing a videogame canon . Such a construct is analogous to the concep...

In one of my very first posts , I spent some time dealing with the question of videogame genres. Mainly, I said they were useless tools for ...

Note: This is (probably) the only article where I will actually distinguish the term "game" from "videogame". Every othe...