A personal newsletter by a game designer that walks through the design of the mobile battle arena game Element Arena, covering combat meta, class design and level design. Readers get first-hand design reasoning, reference points and practical detail from a small startup team.
Website: https://amist.co/
A newsletter of essays and interviews about tabletop RPG design, currently a series on metagames, game-within-a-game design, and the links between theatre and RPGs. Readers get critical analysis, references to games and theory, and insight into the author's own game projects.
Games criticism by Nick Capozzoli, combining close reading of individual titles like Baby Steps and QWOP with essayistic arguments about how gaming discourse frames itself. The sample also includes a personal essay about losing a pet, which shows the writer's voice beyond games.
Brain Worms is an essay newsletter that explores strange and unusual questions about media, from genre labels in video games to cult-like books and the cultural history behind them. Each issue offers a long, witty, digressive piece that uses a quirky premise to examine how media works and how people think about it.
Lars Doucet's personal blog covers game design, land value tax and economics, AI research tooling, and his own game development projects, including tutorials. It also features fiction such as a serialized short story about humans communicating with intelligent ants.
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