I've been recently interviewing lots of game designers and one of my questions is "what is your game design philosophy?" I fig...

Once in awhile, a website's post inspires me to write up a very long response. This time, it was io9's "10 awesome science fic...

"Every good idea borders on the stupid." I used that quote from Michel Gondry in Level Up! and I did because have a lot of respect...

We often talk about how to be creative, but we rarely talk about what can kill it. Youngme Moon posted a video outlining his 14 points on ho...

I've recently been thinking about all the little things that can go wrong on a project and all the things that can be avoided early. One...

...and what we can still rip off... err, learn from them. Ever since Miyamoto created his homage to the 1933 movie Kong Kong , video game de...

Little Big Planet will turn everyone into a platform game designer - however, it might not make them a good game designer. So here is a pr...

Crates are the running gag of the video game industry. They're over-used, visually boring and frankly, the cheap way out for designers w...

This year at GDC, I attended a talk by Patrick Curry (lead designer of Stubbs the Zombie ) who did an interesting project in 2006 on his own...