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Why Super Mario Bros is still an essential lesson in game design

It's been forty years since gaming changed forever with the release of Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The landmark September 1985 release not only introduced what would become ...
The New Yorker

The Game Designer Playing Through His Own Psyche

A little more than a decade ago, the video-game designer Davey Wreden experienced a crippling success. In October, 2013, he and a collaborator, William Pugh, released the Stanley Parable HD, a ...
The Saratogian

UAlbany launches new Game Design and Development major and grad degree

ALBANY, N.Y. — University at Albany student gamers are about to have a new opportunity to turn their passions into careers. The College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity ...
The New York Times

A Game Designer Who Wants to See Ideas He’ll Hate

The founder of Giant Sparrow says creativity requires pushing boundaries. Its next game will explore “the strangeness of organic life.” By Christopher Byrd Ian Dallas, the founder and creative ...