Articles tagged with: game design

Short Games Respect the Clock We Actually Have

A huge open world can be wonderful, but the six-hour game is starting to feel like a gift: focused, memorable, and honest about the time players can spare.

Give Me the Messy Game With a Pulse

Perfect games are nice. The ones players remember for decades are often stranger: rough, stubborn, full of ideas, and impossible to mistake for anything else.

Please Let Games End Before They Start Begging

A good ending respects the player. Not every game needs a forever grind, a weekly checklist, or an endgame treadmill wearing a fake mustache.

Short Games Are Starting to Feel Like a Luxury

A focused six-hour game can feel more generous than a giant map packed with chores. Time is part of value now, whether publishers want to admit it or not.

Let Weird Games Stay Weird, Even When They Trip Over The Furniture

Cult classics endure because they had a point of view. Games need polish, yes, but the medium gets dull when every rough edge is sanded flat before it can mean anything.

No More Saving the World: Why Warhorse Could Make Middle-earth Feel Human Again

Warhorse Studios is making an open-world Middle-earth RPG, and the best version of it might not start with a chosen one, a glowing sword, or another sprint toward Mount Doom. It might start with mud on your boots.

Horror Games Are In Their Gaslighting Era, and It’s Glorious 💀

Jump scares are officially in their flop era. We're diving into how a new wave of horror games, like the mind-bending 'Luto', are ditching cheap thrills for smart, psychological terror that gets deep inside your head and stays there.