Nicholas Andriani Rankin

Tag: game dev

Top 10 Game Design and Game-Making Bogs, Books, and Pods

As a game maker and designer, I understand the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest trends and techniques in game design and development. To help my fellow designers and developers, I have compiled three lists: the top 10 game design and game-making blogs, the top 10 YouTube channels, and the top 10 game design…

March 17, 2023
The Widow’s Call and the Toad: An Interactive Fiction Southern Gothic

Hailed as a journey through grief, isolation, and the human experience, The Widow’s Call and the Toad is a choose-your-own-adventure in which you’re actions drive a plot that challenges you to tease out the mysteries of your haunting experience and assemble clues with the help of Toad, the boy next door who until now has…

February 7, 2023
Future-Proofing Instructional Design and Game Development: Q&A

For example, a handful of instructional design systems that could be used to benefit a game development firm that needs assistance with learning soft skills. Here we have a human-centered concern wi5in the company, incorporating game-like elements to alleviate internal concerns:Provide recommended readings and literature. Also suggest a learning curriculum. Let’s consider the application of…

January 21, 2023
A Reader Responds to Persona 5: Gaming as a Rite and Site of Passage (New Series on Meta-Psychology, Social Cognition, and Individuation)

In Persona 5, the main characters are a group of high school students who discover that they possess the power to enter a parallel world called the “Metaverse,” where they can confront and overcome the distorted desires of adults. Through their experiences in the Metaverse, the characters undergo a process of individuation, which is the…

January 14, 2023