Based upon part three of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. In Walton’s make-believe theory of representation, what is prescribed to be imagined by a particular prop is fleshed out in the imagination ...

Designing puzzles that delight rather than frustrate takes more than cleverness — it’s about balancing challenge, clarity, and player satisfaction. From Wordle-style wordplay to elaborate adventure ...

Is a player's experience interlinked with that player's psychology? This is a vast but barely explored topic that Sensemitter’s analyst Bogdan Baranovskiy explores in this article, providing insights ...

Making a Roblox game visually stunning isn’t just about looks — it’s about crafting an experience that inspires imagination and keeps players engaged. Immersive environments, polished UI, and ...

Developing an understanding of what makes mobile games fun — and what makes players tick — is an important arrow in the modern mobile game marketer’s quiver. Back when IDFA reigned supreme, marketers ...

The term gamification, which means applying game design principles in other contexts, became a buzzword about 15 years ago, mainly driven by companies offering to gamify business processes. The ...

From a programming perspective, binary is embedded into the way developers make video games. But beyond the 1s and 0s of coding itself, for a long time another kind of binary has been imposed onto ...