Depression Quest is the most important game I’ve ever played
This article is part of the “Critical Exemplars” features series. For the previous series, “Better Game Culture,” click here. Whenever I’m defining what games are with
View ArticleThe Promise of Actual Game Criticism
One of the hobby-horses I’ve been riding since the beginning of the Critical Gaming Project in 2007 concerns the paucity of actual game criticism in game studies
View ArticleEvent: Rethinking Games through Critical Let’s Plays (6/12)
When: Thursday, June 12th @ 6:30pm Where: Allen Library, Research Commons The expansion of the videogame industry over the last thirty years documents a seemingly
View ArticleBring Your Own Book: Remediation of “Symphonic Exaltation”
Friend of CGP, UW alum and fellow critical gamer Matthew Moore has recently designed a game, Bring Your Own Book! There is an ongoing Kickstarter
View ArticleSo You Want To Be A Gamemaker?
“The poets gamemakers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” - Percy Bysshe Shelley (if he were a gamer in the 21st century) This summer is
View ArticleVideo Tutorials for Making Games
A Good Start with Gamemaker Tom Francis of Gunpoint has a nice video series on Youtube, “Make a Game With No Experience,” which does a great job of
View ArticleHexels: Experimental Shape Painting
Creating art for games can be intimidating. “Should I learn how to draw 2D pixel art or how to sculpt 3D models?” The first step
View ArticleBlender: A Game Design Multitool
If you’re going to design a 3D game, you’re going to need a fair amount of 3D art to furnish your game’s world. You have
View ArticleResources for Accessible Game Design
“Accessibility” You’ll often hear developers and publishers discussing how “accessible” a game is. Typically, this is framed in a somewhat generic marketing sense as how
View ArticleA Brief Introduction to Neurogaming
Neurogames are a new breed of games that make use of brain-computer interfaces (BCI); these games use electrical signals generated by the player’s body, from
View ArticleCHID250: Invisible Histories of Videogames
If you are interested in studying games as cultural expression and find the mainstream accounts of the historical significance and evolution of videogames to
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