game design

This page is very short. As it turns out, most game design articles here belonged in the Adventure & RPG section, and were moved there, which one exception: Misunderstanding interactivity (10 September 2019), which resides on the blog instead, under the game design tag.

A few older articles remain on the wiki for the time being:

• The work-to-fun ratio (27 March 2011)
• Roguelike design notes (7 April 2011)
• Seconded, Make Pong (12 April 2011)

More writing, as it turns out, resides in the philosophy section; see also my (improperly named) Game Design Manifesto.

Last but not least, as of November 2022, I decided to put up a couple of old game design documents that ended up unused:

• Citypunk
• Ruler of Andromeda

Hopefully you'll find them entertaining if nothing else.