the game design experience
The 2013 GDC game design lecture above is called Talking to the Player – How Cultural Currents Shape and Level Design, and its by Mathias Worch. Its interesting core point is looking at videogames as a form of secondary orality. The talk goes in … [Read more]
Making games set in the Roman republic and empire is one of my obsessions. As I’m convinced that many people will enjoy getting to know more about this empire history and culture that shapes so much of our lives, I tried to get in contact and … [Read more]
Arturo Bandini smuggled in his cat. Eating, sleeping, smoking – that’s his day. Occasionally, random attempts at getting something done. Humans are met, some bound is formed and immediately broken. Arthur recently changed his name, to confuse … [Read more]
In this episode 9 of our Design A Game podcast we interview Alberto Venditti of Britma Design, which is a company that provides psychological character design services. All the details in the podcast: Britma Design on DAG pod 9 I interviewed … [Read more]
I’ve recently given a talk on “Html5 game and gamification from the trenches” at Codemotion. Here are the slides on Slideshare: The core of my argument goes this way: HTML5 as a mobile platform effectively supports a very limited range of … [Read more]
Here you find library and how with @pupunzi we created this "simple HTML5 audio for games library": … [Read more]
As Italy is getting close to an uncertain election day in troubled times, Italian indie game scene – which is quickly getting more and more lively – releases a series of short games on the theme. The games can all be found here, but be warned: both … [Read more]
In designing a videogame, using humor stunts is a great temptation. There is a core problem with that: funny things are funny once, and videogames are made of loops and must allow for several game plays of the same game. … [Read more]
In this Design a Game podcast we interviewed Federico Fasce, game designer at Urustar, a small video game factory based in Genova, Italy. The audio quality of the podcast is not perfect, but it gets better after a while. It is also a quite long … [Read more]
The slides of a short talk I gave at @appsfuel for web developers that want to try to create HTML5 games. From HTML5 websites to HTML5 games from Pietro Polsinelli … [Read more]
Design A Game is a site on game design and development. It is curated by Pietro Polsinelli, who is a game designer and developer. See all his works here.
Here you find the site dedicated to Pietro's book on applied games: Explaining With Games.
