Breaking Social Barriers: Helping Players Take the Next Social Step
What invisible frictions and unmet anxieties cause players to stall out in their social interactions?
Toolkit for Cringe-Safe Social Interactions
What design elements provide permission for players to play together socially?
Embracing Player Pain: Designing for Permanent Loss
Loss and death are important, some would say essential, parts of the human experience. It’s something that we all must, in time, come to accept in our lives. Why is it so hard to accept in our games?
Mechanical Comedy In Games 🤡 😂
A framework for designing mechanical comedy
Rewriting the Player Contract: Legibility and Trust in Game Development
Whether you mean to or not, as a game developer, you will find yourself embedded in contracts with your players, of both explicit and implicit varieties.