Ascii Dreams

I've finally played Dan Cook's Bunni Game: How We First Met - a horrendously addictive casual Flash RTS which he has blogged about a...

Via the Greedy Goblin , Tobold has a few things to say about progress in RPGs (specifically World of Warcraft) that you may find interestin...

In a rec.games.roguelike.development thread started in reaction to the permadeath article I wrote, Ray suggests: I think a grindless roguel...

The only thing saving me from complete addiction to Civilisation Revolution on the iPhone is the fact it isn't completely stable. I...

I somehow want to relate this to my recent thinking about narrative but will get around to it later...

Mr Whirly is the new cake...

Looking at the balance of narrative vs ludology in game design, I keep thinking about what it is that narrative does. I’m not especially int...

I don't know where to begin, but there are so many things I want to say about this game that I didn't realise I needed to play until...

One of the contributors to the PCG wiki just highlighted a link to Blizzard discussing randomized level generation in Diablo III . Unfortun...

I believe I've discussed this before , but Gabe Newell is also now recommending that you give me money in order to fund me developing m...

Half way through reading a #gamedesign tweet started by Soren Johnson, I came across this gem: Harvey1966 @bbrathwaite : Another fave exam...

The answer to my Cold Start question I posed earlier: I have seen this problem previously caused by the CPU starting on a low stepping and ...