The Mechanic

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How Hades plays with Greek myths

Hell to pay

Aug. 17, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

16 comments

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Why Valheim wants to stop you using portals

Portals are historically inaccurate anyway

March 25, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

58 comments

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How The Impossible Bottle makes text adventuring accessible

Examine article

Feb. 10, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

12 comments

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How Teardown made a great game from destruction

If you unbuild it, they will come

Jan. 6, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

13 comments

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How Hardspace: Shipbreaker's devs made spaceships you can cut anywhere

And why they changed their minds

July 29, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

11 comments

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How Satisfactory’s developers lied to their players, and why the players loved it

Pipemania

July 1, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

18 comments

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How upgrading cards fuels Monster Train's wild ride

Train in vain

June 18, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

12 comments

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The difficulty with Pathologic 2's difficulty

A game about struggle

June 3, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

42 comments

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How I Wanna Run The Marathon riffed on Mario to draw a crowd

Some games are made to be watched

May 20, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

1 comment

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How Raft’s shark feeds its survival game

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya

May 6, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

7 comments

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How Untitled Goose Game made a game out of everyday items

From tulips to teapots

April 22, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

2 comments

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How animation powers Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

See through the dimensions

April 10, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

7 comments

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How American Truck Simulator recreates the grand American west

Keep on truckin'

March 25, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

19 comments

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How Hunt: Showdown creates hot, dripping tension

Wascally wabbit

March 11, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

13 comments

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How Generation Zero was fixed

334 hours played, do not recommend

Feb. 26, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

33 comments

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How Shovel Knight's last boss was designed four times

Dig up, stupid

Jan. 29, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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The unknowable chaos of physics in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Turns out that standing still is pretty hard

Jan. 15, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

4 comments

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How Unity Of Command 2 balances game design with military history

Where abstraction meets accuracy

Jan. 1, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

15 comments

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How A Plague Tale: Innocence's rat hordes were made

I'll have you know they make very good pets

Dec. 18, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

13 comments

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How Katana Zero brought action into cutscenes

Worth a thousand words

Dec. 4, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

12 comments

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Why you can anger the gods in Noita

Who wouldn't want to

Nov. 20, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

27 comments

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How Magic: The Gathering card sets are designed

If you go down to the woods today...

Nov. 6, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

10 comments

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How Guild Wars 2's mounts were made

Beasts of burden

Oct. 23, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

5 comments

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How Hypnospace Outlaw's 1990s internet was made

*screaming dial-up noise*

Oct. 9, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

6 comments

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A dictionary of Baba Is You's most difficult words

DEV is HARD

Sept. 25, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

11 comments