Game Design

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1 Adapt or disrupt: A practical guide to surviving in a golden age of games Feature Jan 28th, 2019

Adapt or disrupt: A practical guide to surviving in a golden age of games

Oscar Clark offers astute business and game design tips

2 5 reasons Strike of Kings is perfectly designed to be the next big mobile eSport Feature Jun 7th, 2017

5 reasons Strike of Kings is perfectly designed to be the next big mobile eSport

A look at Tencent's mobile MOBA and how it all comes together

Three things we learned at the Zurich Game Festival Feature Feb 22nd, 2017

Three things we learned at the Zurich Game Festival

At the end of last month, Ludicious took place in Switzerland, and here are our track highlights…

Mediocre on new game DIRAC and playtesting the social way Interview Feb 3rd, 2016

Mediocre on new game DIRAC and playtesting the social way

Swedish indie looks forward to a big 2016

How a YOLO attitude helped Dumpling Design's Dashy Crashy hit a million downloads over a weekend Feature Jan 7th, 2016

How a YOLO attitude helped Dumpling Design's Dashy Crashy hit a million downloads over a weekend

The fledgling studio invite us in for a chat

Against the current: The making of You Must Build a Boat Feature Aug 5th, 2015

Against the current: The making of You Must Build a Boat

What comes after 10000000

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 7: Promote and Support Feature Mar 20th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 7: Promote and Support

You've made a game, but it's not going to sell itself. Here's how to get it out there

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 6: Test, Fix and Publish Feature Mar 18th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 6: Test, Fix and Publish

Check out how to test and fix your new game design

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 5: Assets Feature Mar 17th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 5: Assets

Finding all the pieces that your new game is made of

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 4: Build Feature Mar 16th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 4: Build

You've planned your game, now make it

1 So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 3: Plan Feature Mar 13th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 3: Plan

Failure to plan, when making games, is planning to fail

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 2: Design Feature Mar 12th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 2: Design

Got your new game concept down? Now it's time to start designing

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 1: Concept Feature Mar 11th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Part 1: Concept

Nick Pendriis explains how to cultivate strong ideas

So... You Want to Make Video Games? Feature Mar 10th, 2015

So... You Want to Make Video Games?

We kick off our exclusive serialisation of Nick Pendriis' game development ebook

1 How to create a Game Design Document Feature Dec 18th, 2014

How to create a Game Design Document

Keep on track when starting a new game

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