Elden Ring is the latest in a series of extremely cryptic games from Hidetaki Miyazaki and the team at FromSoftware. Their worlds are...

Recently I’ve been investigating quest structures and design styles of many different open worlds in other media, which led me to do an...

After my recent explorations of quest design structure in various games, and trying to apply that to various films and tv shows, I have...

So a few months ago I wrote a blog post about verb directions in game design and how player abilities are interacted with in direct...

Humans are not trees. It’s a radical statement to make, I know, but try to bear with me while I explain this difficult concept! Humans,...

A few months ago I looked at verb design in other media and as part of that blog post I briefly dipped into Magic: The Gathering, but...

There are days when a man must open his eyes and choose to punch the old gods in the face. There are days which demand violence. Today is...