Richard Moss

Truck driving games like American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 are popular because they offer a routine, almost meditatively romantic simplicity — there’s no lengthy checklist of deadlines to meet and stakeholders to please, no paperwork, no family to feed....

Lego-like phenomenon has birthed a cottage industry of professional builders, but it's under threat

At Wimbledon every year, the world’s elite tennis players compete knowing they can appeal to God if a human line caller gets something wrong. That God’s name is Hawk-Eye, and it makes decisions...

Whereas SimCity and Cities: Skylines try to mimic the form and function of sprawling cities—their complexity emerging from the breadth of the simulation—Block'hood is content to hone in on the minutiae of a single city block.

How brothers Rand and Robyn Miller built worlds from a manhole.

I love SimCity. It's a wonderful simulation of the urban machinery around us, and a playground for messing with our cities. But it turns out the original game, at least, doesn't actually work the way it seems.

We spoke to Chung last week about how he's designed and refined Quadrilateral Cowboy's hacking systems to meet this challenge, how he's balanced the needs of this command-line hacking interface with those of the traditional first-person puzzle-heavy heist adventure that it's wrapped around, and...

We reached out to several developers for their input on more recent games making innovative and instructive uses of AI....

In the right game — Diablo, Rogue, Spelunky, Daggerfall, Elite, Spore, even the likes of Football Manager — procedurally-generated content is magical....

I like to tell people that the brilliance of SimCity 2000’s art style rested on the fact that it was not isometric but rather used a technique called dimetric projection. In simple terms, that means the tiles were the same length in all directions horizontally, but they followed a different, flatter scale vertically. It created an iconic angular look and, functionally speaking, it was huge too.

I spoke to several developers from around Africa about the state of development in the region and the challenges they've been facing in forming local game industries in their own countries and across the whole continent.