At Tutsplus.com – A Beginner’s Guide to Level Design
Hi everyone, today published an article I've been working on for a few months: A Beginner's Guide to Level Design The article describes my process for designing levels, and as…
Economy Balancing Models
Note: This is a rough draft. The article was a couple days late, so I wanted to post the draft. I'll be fixing stuff later, but this should be readable enough for…
Episode 4 – Mark Stuart
Mike interviews Insomniac Lead Designer Mark Stuart. Patreon Credits As always, these articles wouldn’t be possible without my supporters on Patreon: (): Champions Petrov Neutrino Guardians Evine Aidan Price Martin…
October 2015 Patreon Q&A #2
Mikes second monthly Patreon Q&A for October. 0:20 - How to communicate with players 0:50 - User testing 1:50 - Other types of feedback 3:10 - Users want everything to…
October 2015 Patreon Q&A #1
In this chat, Mike talks about Development Hell and what playing games is like as a game developer. Patreon Credits As always, these articles wouldn’t be possible without my supporters…
September 2015 Patreon Q&A
Topics this time include "How Mike got into making games," "balancing economies like in Ratchet and Clank" Patreon Credits As always, these articles wouldn’t be possible without my supporters on…
Chen Diagrams
This picture does not match the content around it. It is merely here to give the impression that this article is not all about words. Stupid words! In my fourth…
The Other Side
It was April, and things were still cold when I found myself in front of the offices of Insomniac Games' old offices, near Universal City Walk. I was on the…
Episode 3 – Guest: Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda
Theme song: Straw Fields, by RoleMusic In this episode Mike talks with designer/writer Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda about a range of topics. Annie is currently co-owner of studio DoubleBear, whose…
Learning from other Media
About five years ago or so, I felt like I needed to improve my game design skills, so I looked around to see what kind of books there were out…