XCOM uses a technique that Firaxis also used in Civilization games since Civilization III to prevent save-scumming: the seed used to generat...

In order to understand game design, you must first understand play. Play is experimentation. The concept of playing with your food and the ...

This is a response for a discussion in the comments on Spinks' post  Bring on the clones . I find that both the ways in which players ...

Spinks pointed out the irony of WoW's 10-man raids: namely that the raids are too small to sustain a guild around a 10-man raid team. R...

The typical way that I see loot working in ARPGs is simple randomization of attributes based on item type and a percentage chance. Roll a ma...

A trap that many ARPG designs fall into is overspecialization in the face of relatively permanent character advancement decisions. Path of E...

I prefer to analyze games as mechanical systems that can aim to produce certain kinds of experiences that fall in the group of experiences w...