A few posts ago ( here , here and here ), we discussed about puzzles, how to create them and what makes them challenging and immersive. To...

" Someday, if society allows it, games will have their Skakespeare " Raph Koster IN: A Theory of Fun for Game Design (2005, p....

Jesper Jull, in his book Half-Real (2005, p.36), contextualizes a game as the union of six elements: fixed rules, variable outcome, valoriz...

Super Meat Boy , an iconic indie game*, is a perfect example of procedural rhetoric. There’s a constant difficulty in every single stage of...

Mario, Lara Croft, Kratos, Carmen Sandiego, Sonic, the Angry Birds, Samus, and so many other video game characters are not only popular amo...