An Intro to Videogame Design History

[nrs26]

I think this is a great article and an awesome website in general. I've always been a big gamer and interested in videogame design but I haven't found many accessible essays for non developers. I'll be following the website and new essays from now on!

If anyone knows other websites or essays like this - that are an in-depth look at videogame design - I would love to know about them.

[seanflyon]

Daniel Cook has some great essays. http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/07/directory-of-posts.html

[sogen]

There's a new post on Designing game narrative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128216

[ilzmastr]

made an epub of the 4 parts with images for my own read-it-later use b/c I'm obsessed with pandoc:

http://cl.ly/2I0f0i1a2d3u

[ghostDancer]

Thanks , for simple pages i use http://dotepub.com/ , and then i read them while commuting .

[jamesbritt]

Wow. Thank you so much.

[unphasable]

the conclusion at the end of the article about the future of video games doesn't even mention VR. I fee video games are about to get their biggest boom ever with the advent of mainstream VR.

[agumonkey]

Are you sure ? what I miss the most in video games is the impressionism immersion. VG are getting close and closer to the uncanny valley, and IMO further from what makes a game special.

[tormeh]

I think the biggest way in which it could change video games is that many people who don't like video games on a screen seem to like it when it has VR-style visual immersion. I've never tried VR, but from people having tried the Rift it seems like video games become much less abstract and have easier suspension of disbelief.

[slurry]

It didn't mention color graphics either. The presentation is about game mechanics, not delivery.