Rethinking Productivity – Jane McGonigal Speaks at The School of Life

Jane McGonigal – On Productivity from The School of Life on Vimeo. The video is Jane McGonigal’s talk at The School of Life about productivity. She begins the speech by getting everyone to write a few things they need to get done this week that would be productive and what would be the result of...

Game Design eBooks Page Is Up!

Our Game Design eBooks page is now up! There you can find a list of eBooks and also some information about their usefulness. To find the page in our menu you can hover your mouse over the Digital Resources page and then click on the Game Design eBooks...

[Indie Game Development] Jonathan Blow Talks about Braid at Game City

This is the video of Jonathan Blow’s talk at Game City. He is an indie game developer who created the game Braid. In this talk Jonathan shows some of the process that Braid went through to get to the final stage and reasons behind some of the decisions he had to make. To start the talk Jonathan shows...

[Becoming a Game Designer] From Seconds to Hours of Gameplay

The video teaches you how to create a game from the ground up based on a single mechanic. Mechanic is defined (in the video) as a small, atomic action in response to something in a game. It could be jumping, running or something similar. The mechanic that was chosen as the core mechanic was clicking on a...

[Indie Game Development] Indie Game Revolution!

The creator of Braid, Jonathan Blow, indie game developer Chris Hecker (who is currently working on SpyParty), and MineCraft creator Markus Persson join up in an interview for Game Trailers’ bonus round episode 503, “Indie Game Revolution!“. I personally found it very interesting to watch...