| 1. | How Controllers Impact Game Design | 160 | | Alien: Resurrection
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| 2. | Games with Epic Spectacle | 126 | | Final Fantasy XVI
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| 3. | How Game Designers Tell Stories with Interior Design | Gone Home, Heavy Rain and Designing Home | 97 | | Life Is Strange
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| 4. | How Game Designers Enable Player Freedom | 148 | | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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| 5. | Call of Duty 4 and the Art of Modern Warfare | 111 | | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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| 6. | Fairy Tales in Video Games | The Unfinished Swan and the Story of Play | 116 | |
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| 7. | How Technology Changes Game Design | 161 | Vlog |
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| 8. | Ghost of Tsushima and the Poetry of Video Games | On Haikus, Cinema and Play | 123 | | Ghost of Tsushima
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| 9. | Understanding Dreams | Rethinking Game Design, Creativity and the Future of Art | 123 | | Dreams
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| 10. | Invictus and Video Games | Why we Love Challenge, Confronting Depression and Designing Difficulty | 126 | | Invictus
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| 11. | The Art of JRPG Design | Genre Essence | 860 | | Chrono Trigger
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| 12. | A Theory of 4th Wall Breaks for Video Games | Hyper Realism | 150 | | Metal Gear Solid
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| 13. | The Simulation Fallacy in Game Design | 190 | | Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
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| 14. | Portal and the Truth about Lies in Video Games | Why Game Designers Deceive Us | 142 | | Portal
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| 15. | Ecological Game Design | Final Fantasy 7 , Flower and the Nature of Play | 143 | Vlog | Final Fantasy VII Remake
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| 16. | The Haunting Beauty of Cities in Games | 202 | | Assassin's Creed II
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| 17. | How Video Game Journalism is Propaganda | Manufacturing Gamers | 199 | |
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| 18. | Love Stories in Video Games | 153 | |
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| 19. | The 5 Kinds of Writing About Games | A Real History of Video Game Criticism | 257 | |
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| 20. | Alone Together | How Video Games Confront Loneliness | 161 | | Dark Souls
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| 21. | The Witness and the Philosophy of Puzzles | 162 | | The Talos Principle
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| 22. | How Rez uses Music to Tell the Story of Humanity | A Design and Music Analysis | 165 | | Rez
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| 23. | Rethinking Space in Game Design | Manifold Garden and Designing Spectacular Spaces | 170 | | Manifold Garden
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| 24. | Cinematic Game Design | Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid and How Cinema has Influenced Video Games | 170 | | Metal Gear Solid
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| 25. | Cybernetic Game Design | Cyberpunk, Cybertext and the Algorithms of Play | 173 | | Cyberpunk 2077
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| 26. | Bioshock and The Philosophy of Games | 182 | | BioShock
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| 27. | A Theory of Play's Revolutionary Power | Playfulness | 184 | |
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| 28. | Balance in Game Design | 364 | | Elden Ring
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| 29. | The Art of Horror Game Design | Silent Hill 2 and the Anatomy of Fear | 201 | | Silent Hill 2
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| 30. | Spec Ops : The Line and the Anti-Aesthetics of Violence in Game Design | 201 | | Spec Ops: The Line
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| 31. | The Paradox of Authenticity in Video Games | Deception and Lies in Art and Play | 209 | |
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| 32. | Dynamic Music in Video Games | How Game Designers Create Interactive Music with Play and Sound | 211 | | Rez
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| 33. | A Systems View of Game Design and Life | 227 | |
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| 34. | Uncertainty in Games | Randomness, Information and Luck in Game Design | 233 | Guide |
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| 35. | A Theory of How Reality is a Game | Gamespace | 236 | |
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| 36. | The History of Indie Game Design | The Spirit of Independent Game Design, and What is an Indie Game? | 242 | | Minecraft
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| 37. | How Video Games Tell Stories | The Hero's Journey, Ocarina of Time and Narratology versus Ludology | 243 | Vlog | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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| 38. | The Art of Failure in Video Games | Designing Difficulty, Tragedy and Death | 243 | | Dark Souls
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| 39. | How Video Games Create Empathy | Hellblade , Nier:Automata and Empathy in Game Design | 244 | | Nier: Automata
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| 40. | The Paradox of Rules in Games and Life | 247 | |
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| 41. | The Paradox of Open World Game Design | 675 | | Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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| 42. | A Theory of Depth for Game Design | 761 | | Depth
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| 43. | Nier: Automata and the Art of Subversion in Game Design | 252 | | Nier: Automata
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| 44. | How Game Designers Create Fear with Ambiguity |Little Nightmares, Inside, Limbo,Dark Souls(Analysis) | 252 | | Little Nightmares
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| 45. | Metal Gear Solid 2 and Postmodern Video Games | 256 | | Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
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| 46. | How Game Designers Break Conventions| Miyamoto, Will Wright, Ueda, Sid Meier, Warren Specter, Blow | 263 | | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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| 47. | The Illusion of Freedom in Video Games | Choice, Consequence and Agency in Game Design | 276 | |
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| 48. | Nonverbal Communication in Game Design | 286 | |
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| 49. | Game Design as Narrative Architecture | The 5 Types of Spaces in Games | 392 | |
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| 50. | The Aesthetics of Play | Why We Play Games, and the Search for Truth and Beauty In Game Design | 287 | | Counter-Strike: Source
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| 51. | How Video Games Create Meaning | Procedural Rhetoric, Meaningful Mechanics and the Dynamics of Play | 289 | | The Last Guardian
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| 52. | A Theory of Beauty for Games | 329 | | The Medium
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| 53. | The Immersive Fallacy in Game Design | The Paradoxes of Graphics ,Technology and Escapism | 293 | Vlog |
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| 54. | What Makes a Game Immersive? | Engagement, Escapism and Immersion in Game Design | 300 | |
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| 55. | The Rise and Fall of Kratos| God of War Critical Analysis (Story Summary /Philosophy) | 308 | | God of War
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| 56. | Far Cry 2 and the Search for Gaming's Heart of Darkness | 313 | | Heart of Darkness
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| 57. | The Art of Video Game Criticism | 316 | | The Medium
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| 58. | Why Art Games are Important | How Avant-Garde Games have Changed Game Design | 331 | | Shenmue 3
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| 59. | AI and Game Design | The History of Artificial Intelligence In Video Games | 342 | | Counter-Strike: Source
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| 60. | The Puzzle of Stealth Game Design | 350 | | Metal Gear Solid
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| 61. | How Game Designers Create Emotional Games | On Journey and Shadow of the Colossus | 350 | | Shadow of the Colossus
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| 62. | Jonathan Blow and David Foster Wallace | The Interesting Similarities between Literature and Games | 357 | |
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| 63. | The Philosophy of Pac-Man | A.I, Semiotics, Hidden Meanings, and the Symbolic Language of Games | 369 | | Pac-Man
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| 64. | The History and Future of Walking Simulators | How they have Influenced Game Design and Storytelling | 370 | | The Stanley Parable
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| 65. | The Brilliant Storytelling of The Last of Us Winter Chapter ( Story Summary / Critical analysis) | 371 | | The Last of Us
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| 66. | The Design Philosophy of Fumito Ueda | Ico , Shadow of the Colossus and Design by Subtraction | 424 | | Ico
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| 67. | The Pure Game Design of Fighting Games | 490 | | Virtua Fighter
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| 68. | How Game Designers Create Morality Systems | 505 | | Spec Ops: The Line
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| 69. | What Video Games Can Do as an Artform | The Language of Games, and Why Video Games are Art | 511 | | Ori and the Blind Forest
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| 70. | A Theory of Fun for Game Design | Raph Koster and The Art of Designing Fun Games | 512 | |
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| 71. | The Main Conflicts of Modern Game Design | Ludonarrative Dissonance, Interactivity and Jonathan Blow | 587 | |
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| 72. | The History of Creativity in Game Design | The Evolution of Genres, and Innovation in Video Games | 609 | | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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| 73. | The Art of Game Design | Jesse Schell, Christopher Alexander and the Architecture of Video Games | 646 | | The Medium
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| 74. | The Art and Science of Game Feel | How Game Designers Juice Games with Mechanics,Pacing and Effects | 937 | |
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| 75. | The Design Philosophy of Hideo Kojima | The History of Metal Gear Solid | 953 | | Metal Gear Solid
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| 76. | How Game Designers Create Systemic Games | Emergence, Dynamic Narrative and Systems in Game Design | 968 | | Emergence
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| 77. | The Best Game Design Ideas from GDC | A Summary and Analysis of GDC talks you Shouldn't miss | 980 | |
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| 78. | Why Video Games are Art | The Beauty of Play, and How 'Fun' is not the Opposite of Art | 1,155 | | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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| 79. | The Art of Puzzle Design | How Game Designers Explore Ideas and Themes with Puzzles and Problems | 1,236 | | The Witness
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| 80. | How Game Designers Create Meaningful Mechanics | Conveying Themes, Emotions and Ideas In Video Games | 1,871 | | Shadow of the Colossus
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| 81. | The Design Philosophy of Famous Game Designers | Sid Meier, Will Wright, Miyamoto and Kojima | 2,237 | | Dark Souls
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| 82. | The Design Philosophy of Hidetaka Miyazaki | Creating Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne | 2,561 | | Bloodborne
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| 83. | How Dark Souls Confronts Depression |Dark Souls Critical Analysis|(Lore summary,Philosophy,Symbolism | 2,949 | | Dark Souls
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