What is the true 'artist's reward'? When are you pushing usefully out of your comfort zone, and when are you banging your head against a rock? Alexis and Lottie discuss developing your own creative talents alongside game design issues like the ...

Who are the 'old gods' of gamebooks? Why can we mess with rules in Travelling At Night but not in Cultist Simulator? What's 'combinatorial explosion', and why is it ruining your life?Join Alexis and Lottie for these questions alongside a...

What's the 'double or half' rule? Why is game design like Khazad-dûm? What the hell is a quaternion? No, really, we don't know. Join AK and Lottie for another jaunt through game dev, via narrative modifiers, infinite nuns and 'entering the Mans...

"There are games where the player is having fun and games where the designer is having fun." - Sid MeierMaps! Music! British pre-decimal currency! We discuss planning game narratives around major player choices, Mike Rosewater's 'complex...

"What we want is a sort of semi-glutide octi-frenetic image that is kinda made of lighting and also is a baby..."This week AK and Lottie discuss how art direction works, how to balance being weird with being commercially viable, how we'...