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Psychological Progression

Roguelike games are built on a premise of trying to reach the bottom of a dungeon (either literal or metaphorical) by building up powers,...

Elements Of A Hero

In past blog posts I have analyzed the game mechanics of Magic the Gathering to better understand how that game tells us about its...

Narrative Design In Elden Ring

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

Fairy Tales and Breath of the Wild

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

Quest Layers in Avatar The Last Airbender

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

Verb Directions in Quest Design

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...

Story Through Personal Growth

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,...

Verb Directions in Game Design

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...

Quest Design Analysis - Mario vs Armored Core

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...