Arcweave Blog publishes posts for game designers and writers on building interactive narratives, including comparisons of design documents versus structured project tools, and tutorials for importing Arcweave projects into Unity, Godot and Unreal. Readers get practical workflow ideas and step-by-step integration guidance, though the posts are written from a product-promotional standpoint.
Website: https://blog.arcweave.com/
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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