Highlighted Posts
Looking for the good stuff? These are my most popular posts:
Game Design
- Books on game design, creativity & marketing
Read these books! - Video: “The Powerful Link Between Creativity And Play”
Fantastic examples of creativity, human-centered design, rapid prototyping and iterative development. - Game Design 101 Rant: Over-Reliance On Documentation
Please don’t write 100+ page design documents. - Gameplay lessons learned from camp
What a strange boyscout camp experience from childhood taught me about motivation, emergent player behavior and virtual currency. - Playing A Singleplayer Game… Massively
Thoughts on games that allow you to share the same singleplayer experience amongst several players. It’s difficult to explain. - Designing games for exhibitions or events
Some cinema directors invited me to a symposium to talk about gaming. This is what I told them.
Other Stuff
- Children of Men is totally like Half-Life
Like, whoa. - Idea: shower karaoke
This is only the best game idea ever. - Kinetic Typography In Games
A fancy term for “moving text”. Mostly in opening and credit sequences. - Interactive Journalism
About the sheer inability of game journalists to do any research at all, unless it’s an ARG. - Curlz and Comic Sans: just say no
Poor typography in UI can be very distracting - Gaming is forever doomed: a rebuttal
Can games ever reach a cultural impact on par with other media like books or film?
Hey, my name is Marek Bronstring and I'm Head of Content at Sega. You're looking at my rarely-updated game design blog. I think this sidebar needs some more text so let me tell you what my top favorite animals are: 1) meerkats 2)