Game Design Aspect

In this article, game designer Sande Chen relates important lessons learned from the design of that game company's games, Journey and Sk...

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful pa...

Hi!  If you missed our SXSW panel , you can catch it here on the SXSW 2021 YouTube channel.  It's completely different from the LudoNarr...

Happy Holidays! I've just noticed that this blog was started 10 years  ago! I don't think I've ever done a retrospective, so wit...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen reports on Jason Rohrer's session at the 2019 Taipei Game Developers Conference, in which he g...

In this article, game writer Sande Chen opines about forced failure as story moments and how players are more likely to forgive forced failu...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen recognizes the issues with using virtual reality to promote empathy and social impact. Virtual r...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen looks at how storytelling is used in marketing to create emotional connection with audiences. Wh...

In this article, writer Joshua Castleman addresses how game designers can reduce ludonarrative dissonance in linear action games to produce ...

In this article, game writer Sande Chen discusses how the nature of video game playing undermines the emotional stakes in linear storytellin...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen follows up on the ways games can provide a truly emotional experience. At NYU's Lecture Seri...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen explores the emotional relationship between players and the stray dogs in The Witcher. Last yea...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen wonders about the role of emotions in designing a game. One particular way of teaching creative ...

In this article, game writer Sande Chen ponders how to find the heroine's journey, or the internal life of characters, in games. A f...

In this article, game designer Sande Chen discusses the impact of effective messaging in serious games. In a TV advertisement, you've...

In this Q&A, experimental videogame maker and IGF finalist Daniel Benmergui talks about his own approach to making games and the potenti...

In Part I , graduate student Nick Lalone considers Johan Huizinga's notion of play-character as a pathway to invoke emotions in games. ...

In Part I of this article, graduate student Nick LaLone considers Johan Huizinga's notion of play-character as a pathway to invoke emoti...

In this article, game writer and designer Shelly Warmuth explains why emotive games, games that affect players emotionally, involve small e...