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Dev Log: The Door Problem

One of the interesting things I’ve experienced developing a game within the framework of a well established genre (Metroidvania, in

When I was cutting my gaming teeth, the era of the arcade was almost over. While I played consoles mostly,

So last time I was saying that a developer who is making a world to explore has a problem. He

Dark Souls 1’s Ash Lake is my favorite location in the game; vast, haunting, mysterious. Visually it hearkens back to

In an opera, the characters stand around for long periods of time singing. If you attempted to judge an opera