A game designer's newsletter on shmup (shoot-'em-up) design, covering scoring systems, audio, risk and rank, and progress on their game Interstellar Sentinel. Issues combine design analysis with personal anecdotes and community discussion.
Website: https://www.mothershmupper.com/
Short, practical essays on game design theory, each building one principle around concrete examples from games like Slay the Spire, Slipways and Rift Wizard. Readers get design heuristics they can apply to upgrade systems, synergies and multiplayer structure.
A newsletter of essays and interviews about tabletop RPG design, currently a series on metagames, game theory and the links between theatre and RPGs. Readers get critical analysis with scholarly references, plus context for the author's own game releases.
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.
A mix of tabletop roleplaying game settings and supplements (for The Black Hack and Mörk Borg) alongside essays that use historical and cultural analogies to discuss technology and AI. Readers get original game-design material and idiosyncratic critical writing.
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