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QA Lead at Obsidian explains a bug in The Outer Worlds where the game decided your companion was dead, despite the fact that companions usually can't die
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Tough love: On Dark Souls' difficulty
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Credits are not 'extra' - why game credits matter
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Artificial loneliness - Appreciating the rare moments of emptiness inside the busy worlds of modern gaming
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Hytale november development update
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Ars talks fighting games with Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari
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Nintendo's Corey Olcsvary plays a selection of user-generated Super Mario Maker 2 levels and offers his thoughts on their designs
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Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky's design lessons from The Outer Worlds
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Microtransactions - What does good game monetization look like?
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Crafting mystery through gameplay in Nauticrawl
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Development on the Zelda-inspired TetraForce is moving along at a fast pace!
@tetraforcegame: More online multiplayer #zelda-like action! Now with fancy lighting effects #gamedev #GodotEngine #indiedev https://t.co/pQf3mIgfyy
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The effects animation of Hollow Knight
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Braid and the beauty of not wasting time
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How Blasphemous' level design iterates on classic Metroidvanias
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Permadeath as a game mechanic in a survival horror: the Song of Horror case
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fornclake is developing an open source GBC Zelda clone with online multiplayer
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What’s inside Skinner’s Box? How using an exploit in the learning systems of our brain creates pleasure
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Six ways Mario Kart Tour triggers you into gambling your money
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Designing investigative conversations in Heaven's Vault
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The creative camaraderie behind Wilmot's Warehouse
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Designing River City Girls' approachable, challenging brawling
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent released nine years ago - lessons about designing horror games from Frictional's creative director
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Area-focused narrative design
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Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, and procedurally generated story telling
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The GGPO rollback networking SDK used in games like Skullgirls and Fantasy Strike is now available under the MIT license
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Artifact - Ten key mistakes that led to the game's failure
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Telling Lies - Making a game mechanic out of scrubbing video
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Designing the personality-based narrative system of Jenny LeClue
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Squash and Stretch - The twelve principles of animation and how they apply to games
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Sonic Battle (GBA) Renderer Series
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To make Later Alligator, Smallbu had to wrestle with game design
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Game difficulty is about trust and communication, not "hard" vs. "easy"
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Bounce Back postmortem: A Zelda style boomerang game for #JS13k
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Inside the process of creating adaptive music for Temtem's score
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Sid Meier discusses Civilization's original design as a real-time strategy game and the transition to turn-based | War Stories
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The animation of Hollow Knight
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Why I write games in C (yes, C)
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Making Them's Fightin' Herds: The story of Mane6 and what goes into making an indie fighting game
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How to grow as a game designer - What to read, where to get ideas, and knowing thyself
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Inside the narrative design of Control, Remedy Entertainment's least linear game
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Free-to-Play games: Three key trade-offs
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Methods of creating invisible tutorials
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Designing the satisfying space combat of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
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Intimate documentary on Mekorama creator highlights the joys and frustrations of mobile game development
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As game budgets balloon, indie devs learn to work smarter - The creators behind Outer Wilds, Observation, and Void Bastards on getting more for less
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I Am the Cheapest Bastard In Indie Games
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How Link's climbing animation works in Breath of the Wild
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World of Warcraft Classic's game director Ion Hazzikostas reflects on the genesis of the idea, its challenging development, and the importance of a unified community
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Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap
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