Player paths are a central design paradigm game designers use for video games. However, keeping track of all designed player paths during development is difficult. This paper proposes a framework that ...

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive. Horizon Forbidden West - Steam ...

When I meet with Cole Wehrle to talk about his new studio, Buried Giant, he is wearing a shirt that says, in basic, block capitals, 'Board Games'. It's an amusing role reversal, to see the man whose ...

Wizards of the Coast has hired longtime Dungeons & Dragons writer James Haeck as a senior game designer, bringing one of 5th edition’s most prolific contributors fully in-house as the D&D team ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Lauren writes about interior design and real estate. In September 2025, Button became the focus of a first-of-its-kind ...

Riot Games is embracing bold new designs and reworking its approach to releasing champions in League of Legends. This shift stems from the belief that taking risks on innovative mechanics is ...

The Game Design Future Lab at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering welcomed its inaugural associate director and slate of six partner companies set to participate in one-year residency that offers ...

Rebecca Heineman, the game developer and winner of the first American video game competition, has died. Heineman died after a short battle with lung cancer, her friend Heidi McDonald announced on ...

Rebecca Heineman, a pioneering figure in the video game industry and co-founder of Interplay Productions, has died at age 62 after a brief battle with cancer, IGN reported. Friends and colleagues ...

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The academic and research community has used different terms over the years to define and frame video games that go beyond entertainment. The term serious games has proven the most enduring, ...

Students from across the country will get a chance to design their own version of the skyscraper-size video games that have become the calling card of Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio ...