The simple act of jumping can make or break a 2D platformer. In the first episode of Mechanically Speaking, Game Array explores how developers balance responsiveness and fairness to the player to make these movements magical.
The Karma system in the original inFamous gave players a choice between being bad or being good, but for the most part the game didn't change much depending on the path you took. inFamous 2 addresses that issue explosively.
Game Mechanic Studios, a new development studio formed by former EA and Activision employees, have just released the first two screens for their new original IP, Art of War.
Paul Tozour has put up an entertaining video over at the Game/AI blog on the problem of pathfinding - which could probably otherwise be known as 'Wait a minute, that enemy has wings but is getting hung up on a ledge it's flying above. What?'. Along with the video, he's also written a somewhat lengthy treatise on…
Plagiarism is one of those serious issues that has laid low a number of people who 'should know better'; over at Only a Game, the question of plagiarism in games is raised — what constitutes plagiarism? How do we define it? Is it even really an issue? Looking at some of the "match 3" games (Puzzle Quest and the…
