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A Brief Look at Racing Track Design

There are several different types of racing games, going from simulation racers, to arcade racers, to kart racers with several different variations along the way such as rally racers and driving ga…

How Sega Makes Race Tracks

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Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner Review

Video review here, and followup thoughts down below, enjoy. This video was a lot more work than I expected it to be, and although I covered some of what I thought was important, there are still a f…

Zone of the enders the second runner review, with a little bit of comparison to the first game sprinkled in.

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It’s been a while since I posted anything on this site, but that’s going to change very soon. I check up on this site every once in a while and I notice there are still people that chec…

A quick little update about the site 

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Update

Hey guys, I love writing content for this site. Comparisons reviews etc, but this site has made about 1.40$ so far… not really sustainable so I’m looking for money in other ways for the…

Hey guys, Nathan of devdocuments.com with an important update on the future of the site.

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The Level Design of The Painted World – Dark Souls

One of Anor Londo’s biggest kept secrets is the Painted world of Ariamis. It’s more of a hidden gem really as it has some of the best level design in the game. The lore is interest…

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Why the Skyrim Hype?

Skyrim remastered came out recently and it just reminded me about the depressing decline of western RPGs. Western RPGs used to embody all the elements of Dungeons and Dragons and explore west…

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An Analysis of Video Game Music

I was listening to some of the music from one of the Final Fantasy 15 trailers the other day, and it got me thinking about the differences between western compositions for video games and Japa…

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The Factors of Piracy

I would like to preface this article by saying I don’t condone piracy, it’s illegal and good developers deserve money for a good product. That being said there are quite a few features …

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Why Japanese Batman is Better

I would like to preface this by saying, I understand there is a lot more to the Batman Arkham games that makes them enjoyable than just their combat systems. I played through a bit of Batman A…

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Just Brilliant

This article is dedicated to appreciating the concepts that have revolutionized modern game design. Namely the 3d games that have taken so many steps in the right direction for their respectiv…

I love movement options in games 

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Animation and Movements in Game Design

Taking a look at this picture below, there are a couple things clearly demonstrated. For one the uppercut being thrown looks very powerful, the effects lend to this but the tracer of the fis…

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The Skill Ceiling

It’s easy to make a lot of comparisons in your mind to dismiss certain games simply because you have experienced a similar game but of a much higher standard. For instance when someone brings…

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A step down in enemy design – Dark Souls 3

I’m a pretty big fan of the souls games, I would consider demon’s souls to be my all time favorite game and dark souls is up there in terms of quality. That being said I haven’t g…

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Visual Design vs Graphics

This is a Silver skeleton, one of the best enemies in demon’s souls At a glance the glowing eyes and tall proud stature make it a very imposing enemy, the odd armor it wheres which is either …

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Shenmue’s grasp on realism

In 1999 open world games really came into their own with the release of Shenmue for the Sega Dreamcast (originally planned for release on the Sega Saturn). It was a commercial failure due to too hi…

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Super Nintendo start screen montage.

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I dont know, the start screen for modern games is pretty good