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A painterly image of a Glimmerwick character on a wooded path

Deep Dive: The innovative projected 2D workflow of Songs of GlimmerwickDeep Dive: The innovative projected 2D workflow of Songs of Glimmerwick

While labor intensive, the process added a sense of dynamism to each scene by using techniques typically reserved for 3D.

byDanny Weinbaum

Feb 23, 2023

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9 Min Read

Several people at a script reading. A woman looks directly at the camera.

How IMMORTALITY captures an "open world" feel with its narrative How IMMORTALITY captures an "open world" feel with its narrative

Feb 23, 2023

9 Min Read

a pair of people work together to untie a super long necktie

inTIErrupted cooperatively untangles a tie filled with puzzles inTIErrupted cooperatively untangles a tie filled with puzzles

Feb 22, 2023

9 Min Read

The outlines of two heads facing one another, with an option to reroll dice in between them.

Betrayal at Club Low uses dice to pull players into compelling, surreal narrative situations Betrayal at Club Low uses dice to pull players into compelling, surreal narrative situations

Feb 22, 2023

11 Min Read

F1 racetrack with drivers and crews

Deep Dive: Recreating the high octane broadcast experience in F1 Manager 2022Deep Dive: Recreating the high octane broadcast experience in F1 Manager 2022

byMatt Dickinson, Tim Bartlett

Feb 21, 2023

9 Min Read

several people in 1950s dress hanging around a bar

How To Hell With the Ugly brought a fantasized 50's L.A. to life through color How To Hell With the Ugly brought a fantasized 50's L.A. to life through color

Feb 21, 2023

7 Min Read

a person in a space suit floats through a plaid universe

Afterglitch Seeks to Stir Unknowable Emotions in Utopian Space

Afterglitch Seeks to Stir Unknowable Emotions in Utopian Space

Several purple creatures are milling about while a blue one blends in. A person in a controller navigates using a puppet

YettiBebbis: Puppet in a Cult has players investigate a cult with a puppet controller

YettiBebbis: Puppet in a Cult has players investigate a cult with a puppet controller

a long-legged man peers into the distance, a yellow house sitting in the waters behind him

Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg explores the unreliability of memory

Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg explores the unreliability of memory

two people wearing a single colossal hat

Haber Dasher steers alien invaders with a massive co-op hat controller

Haber Dasher steers alien invaders with a massive co-op hat controller

two children play with a turtle outside of a building

NORCO and capturing the spirit of Louisiana through sci-fi storytelling

NORCO and capturing the spirit of Louisiana through sci-fi storytelling

RE:CALL screenshot two characters together

The memory-altering mechanics of adventure game RE:CALL

The memory-altering mechanics of adventure game RE:CALL

a young black girl with multicolored hair looks at you

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist turns life experiences into a card game

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist turns life experiences into a card game

a worker hides from warehouse supervising robots

Time Bandit is an idle game that examines how employers steal your time

Time Bandit is an idle game that examines how employers steal your time

two people in racing helmets sitting back to back, each steering using a bicycle tire steering wheel

How constraints fueled Two By 4 Racing's co-op steering wheel controllers

How constraints fueled Two By 4 Racing's co-op steering wheel controllers

A screenshot of The Block

Postmortem: Bitesize city-builder, The Block

Postmortem: Bitesize city-builder, The Block

a humanoid fox holding a sword aloft on a grassy hill

How TUNIC weaves wondrous worlds inspired by inscrutable NES manuals

How TUNIC weaves wondrous worlds inspired by inscrutable NES manuals

a person playing piano on a platform in the woods, a bright light shining behind them

The Forest Quartet explores grief (and solves puzzles) with jazz

The Forest Quartet explores grief (and solves puzzles) with jazz

A complex controller covered in connectors, buttons, switches, and keyholes.

Avoiding nuclear disaster with the connectors & pedals of Atomik

Avoiding nuclear disaster with the connectors & pedals of Atomik

A person smoking. Their eyes are covered with scratched black lines, like someone has drawn over them with a marker

An Outcry explores the importance of a single personal choice

An Outcry explores the importance of a single personal choice

A pair of people playing a pong-like soccer game using a unique sliding, twisting controller

Playing football with the twisting, sliding controller of Hua and Liu's Fooscade

Playing football with the twisting, sliding controller of Hua and Liu's Fooscade

several tiny creatures are parachuting down, guns and axes drawn

How Mr. Sun's Hatbox's humor helped the testing process

How Mr. Sun's Hatbox's humor helped the testing process

Choo Choo Charles terrifying train monster

Exploring the subversive childhood horror of Choo Choo Charles

Exploring the subversive childhood horror of Choo Choo Charles

Three strange witch's brews

Inside the full size food truck controller of Kitchen Kauldron

Inside the full size food truck controller of Kitchen Kauldron

A TV broadcast input screen from Not For Broadcast

Handling dystopian news in NotGames' Not For Broadcast

Handling dystopian news in NotGames' Not For Broadcast

a little creature sails aboard a tiny log boat, moving past a broken ship

Playing with pieces of the world in randomerz's Slider

Playing with pieces of the world in randomerz's Slider

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge

Deep Dive: How TMNT Shredder's Revenge was built on nostalgia and new ideas

Deep Dive: How TMNT Shredder's Revenge was built on nostalgia and new ideas

byYannick Belzil

A toaster connected to a pc in order to play a golf game that launches a fish

Gilliam's Great Escape turns a toaster into a golf controller

Gilliam's Great Escape turns a toaster into a golf controller

How Deep is the Darkest Water

Telling emotional stories through evocative scenes in Rhett Tsai's How Deep Is the Dark Water?

Telling emotional stories through evocative scenes in Rhett Tsai's How Deep Is the Dark Water?

a multi-button control panel is being pressed to switch cameras as someone uses voice controls to close a door

Exploring unique surveilling and thieving controllers for Debono's HEIST '98

Exploring unique surveilling and thieving controllers for Debono's HEIST '98

A pair of people dancing on either end of a large dance controller mat

The making of Voss, Kohutek, Regner, & Siemon's GridMaster

The making of Voss, Kohutek, Regner, & Siemon's GridMaster

Finding the beat through environmental cues in the rhythm game Melatonin

Finding the beat through environmental cues in the rhythm game Melatonin

Yuppie Psycho art

Postmortem: First-job survival-horror game Yuppie Psycho

Postmortem: First-job survival-horror game Yuppie Psycho

byHenrique Lage

Pentiment screenshot showing monks at work

Deep Dive: Behind the evocative medieval manuscript art of Pentiment

Deep Dive: Behind the evocative medieval manuscript art of Pentiment

byHannah Kennedy

Prince of Persia cover art

Prince of Packaging: A tale of 1990s box art

Prince of Packaging: A tale of 1990s box art

byJordan Mechner

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