Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a consultant game designer and creator of leading game design blog What Games Are.You can follow him on Twitter here. There’s a number of us who claim the title ...

Game designer programs offer courses spanning all aspects of the design process, including designing levels and writing plots. Expect to see variations of the following fundamental and major ...

Dimma Davidoff created the Mafia party game in Russia in 1986 and says that The Traitors producers never reached out to him ...

Study games: game designers are able to take games apart and "observe their guts" this way, they are able to find out what makes a game fun and thus feed their own designs. Propose mechanics: game ...

Here's what is going up and down in a design-obsessed editor's estimations this month, and it's filled with adventurous, ...

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" has yet another problem in addition to the controversy and protest it's ...

Steve Powers has never visited Hong Kong, but he’s been there in his dreams.

A Game Designer Who Wants to See Ideas He’ll Hate. The founder of Giant Sparrow says creativity requires pushing boundaries. Its next game will explore “the strangeness of organic life. ...

Jeff Minter is an indie game designer you may not know, but you should. This collection is like playing an arcade from another dimension. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I ...

A video game designer responds to K Chess’ “Escape Worlds.”. It changed my life.These are the words that every working artist, no matter the medium, wants to hear at some point.

Finn Veatch is the designer behind Arcaven's Duel, a card game that started in his living room and now has international fans. Here's how he did it.