What is a metagame, exactly? Examples from Magic: the Gathering.

Sometimes the story adapts to the player.

Games can often be “split” into two or more interlocking systems.

What dice fudging is and why it exists in tabletop roleplaying games.

The first release of my “improvised interactive fiction game”.

The basics of procedural generation. With code!

Innovation, in computer games at least, is always good. Well, that depends on what you mean by “good”. Is an innovative game always a fun game? No. Does an innovative game always make money? No. So what’s the point? The point is that every innovative game advances knowledge in some way. Even if only one [...]

The computer game Uplink rewards you for thinking like a computer criminal.

A minor feature of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier can fool the player into thinking of the characters as real people.

Some games feature mechanics that operate like slot machines. I think this is bad.