My daughter showed me this video, which uses a location in Super Mario Galaxy 2 to show how game designers use scrolling layers and textures to create the illusion of flowing water. The video was created by a guy named Michael ‘Jasper’ Ashworth, who has a very cool website of elements, art, and levels from a bunch of Nintendo games that you can experiment with.
It’s videos like these that make me love YouTube.
Level design is its own kind of playful art: part theatre and part architecture, you’re making spaces to challenge and delight other people.
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The increasing popularity of room escape games brings with it some interesting design considerations. How do you lock all your friends in a room and force them to solve cryptoquotes and make sure everyone still has a good time?
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If you have ever read anything I’ve written about video games, you will have heard me insert notations about the democratization of tools. The business of making games used to necessitate access to bureaucratic, white-guys-only organizations and their social and professional lexicons. But now there are radical tools that anyone can use to make games […]
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Want to build your own website? Even for a modest personal site, it was once assumed you might wait for days or weeks while a web designer hammered through arcane code on your behalf. That all sounds a little ridiculous today. And if you had to thank one company for that, it would probably be […]
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It’s a long road from a song in your head to a song on the charts – especially if you’re just learning to play. The good news is, anyone who’s willing to practice can make music. These online classes can make that process painless, with methods that can teach anyone guitar, piano or even the […]
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If you’ve worked in any high-performing engineering lab, you already know about MATLAB. This computing environment and the language that powers it is perfectly suited to science and math, with an interface that makes it easy to express and visualize complex algorithms – not to mention an infrastructure that lets it easily work with other […]
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