Game Design Review: English Country Tune

English Country Tune is a puzzle game where you play as a square. To solve puzzles you must push balls into boxes. This game has a mix of action and puzzle which I find very entertaining to play. To get a better feeling of the game, you can watch the trailer below or even download the demo for either PC or...

11 Prototyping Tips with Stuart Jeff

Prototyping is a critical stage in game development as it affects the rest of the development process. Knowing what to accomplish in this phase, how to prepare and transition into the rest of the game’s development can increase your capacity to create better games. 1. Momentum is key 2. Do not paper...

Game Development – How to get a job

In this video Peter Molyneux simply and quickly talks about three ways to break into the game industry. One of them is to get into academics. Another one is to get a testing job and work your way into design. The last way and it’s the path that Peter took is to create games yourself. You can either...

[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...