Game Design

Are you wondering how to pitch to game developers?
In 2009, twenty-nine year old Markus “Notch” Persson started work on RubyDung, a procedurally generated construction sim ...

You don’t need to be a gamer to recognize the incredible success of Fortnite: Battle Royale and Overwatch — two of the most popular games ...

By Felipe Lara – Instructor, New York Film Academy Game Design

If you have led a team in the development of a new game, you probably ...

By Felipe Lara – Instructor, New York Film Academy Game Design

A good piece of concept art can be used as a prototype to test one ...

For aspiring game designers, we have created three tips to help you excel in design meetings in the game industry. Check it out:

Make It About ...

One of the most debated topics in the video game industry is one that may surprise you: not graphics or gameplay, but ethics. People, whether ...

By Felipe Lara – Instructor, New York Film Academy Game Design
Adding storytelling to your game can help you connect emotionally to your players, add meaning ...

by NYFA Instructor Andy Ashcraft
So, as some of you may have noticed, table-top games — board-games and card games — are really popular right now. ...

By Felipe Lara, NYFA Game Design

How can you make your game more engaging and effective? In a nutshell, by making engagement stronger at the different levels ...

By Andrew Ashcraft, NYFA Game Design
One of the biggest benefits of playing games, whether we’re playing for fun or to learn how to design, is ...

By Felipe Lara, NYFA Los Angeles Game Design

We all want to make successful games: innovative, loved by players, and profitable.  The question is: Is there ...

The Gaming industry is more competitive than ever, enough that finding success in just one market is a challenge. Of course, there’s nothing quite like ...

Like in life, learning the hard way is never a pleasant experience. Instead of identifying your game design mistake beforehand and avoiding it, you get ...

Do you fancy yourself creating the virtual worlds where players explore and get lost in? The job of Game Artist is becoming more and more ...

The game industry is more competitive than ever, enough that finding success in any one country is hugely challenging. Imagine then trying to create a ...

Boss battles are arguably one of the most exciting things about video games. Ask the average gamer what their favorite boss battles are and they’ll ...

Almost anywhere you look, statistics will show that the number of people who identify themselves as gamers is growing. From small mobile and indie titles ...

More people are realizing just how powerful video games are as a storytelling tool. Movies are fine and books are great too, but there’s just ...

The Pokémon franchise finds itself in an interesting place (at least as far as this writer is concerned). As someone who has played a couple ...

In the world of both streaming and gaming, the streaming wars look like they’re getting taken to the next level.  This month, Netflix launched a ...

Far Cry is one of those games where you don’t need to necessarily focus on the story in order to enjoy it. In a sense ...

For a couple of months now, Ghost of Tsushima has been all the rage on the Playstation side of console gaming. In a blogpost direct ...

StarWars.com recently announced that they would be starting up Lucasfilm Games, the new brand-heading for all video games Star Wars-related. The 1-11-21 press release says ...

Current events continue to keep most of the population indoors for extended periods of time, affecting everything from studying to working to, yes, even gaming. ...

If you want to make video games, you need to be playing video games. But while the latest and greatest AAA console games are a ...

At this year’s  Game Developers Conference (GDC), internet behemoth Google announced their bid into the streaming gaming market: the Google Stadia. The Stadia (plural for ...

Most gamers have heard of Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda series, or they might know of Hideo Kojima, ...

It’s hard to imagine video games without The Legend of Zelda. Time and time again, Nintendo uses this iconic series to try and set the ...

This December, Netflix anthology series Black Mirror released their first “interactive narrative” episode, entitled Bandersnatch. The critical response was explosive, with some reviewers calling it ...

January and February tend to be a quiet time for game releases, especially following the pre-Holiday season in the Fall. While there’s plenty of new ...

Last September, Sony released Spider-Man, the 35th video game based on the popular Marvel comic book superhero. The game, developed by Insomniac Games (Ratchet and ...

The video game industry can be a tricky beast to predict. Who could have expected a little sandbox game called Minecraft to dominate pop culture, ...

Los Angeles celebrates Halloween better than any other city on Earth. Maybe it’s because so many Hollywood special effects artists live here, or because there ...

By Scott Rogers – Instructor, New York Film Academy Game Design
Nintendo recently celebrated its 46th year of creating video games, and with the exception of ...

Today’s video games offer some of the most captivating worlds and stories one can experience. From incredibly realistic environments to impressive artificial intelligence, games have ...

Gaming tie-ins for movie franchises have existed for nearly as long as people have been playing video games. When done well, these media can blend ...

Whether it’s due to rushed development times or not enough creative freedom, games based on movies rarely become the talk of the industry. Once in ...

Is the only thing keeping you from transforming your great game idea from dream to reality your wallet? Well then, you will be happy to ...

The evolution of video game trailers is comparable to games themselves. While 20 years ago we were content running across 8-bit worlds, now we expect ...

By Scott Rogers, NYFA Game Design
Developers of new games constantly reference existing games when collaborating with their teammates. There is nothing worse than seeing the ...

CGI and video games: computer generated images (or, at least, computer interpreted images) are, by definition, the visual recipe for every video game we play ...

Wondering where all of the diversity is in the video game industry? Don’t worry — it’s not all guys. Of course, it’s not surprising that ...

The beauty of video games is that they can take you to any point in space and time you can possibly dream up. Want to ...

As the biggest pop culture event on the East Coast, New York Comic Con (NYCC 2016) is always on the radar of every comic fan ...

Two decades ago, the video game market got its first taste of virtual reality thanks to the Virtual Boy. The device promised “true 3D graphics” ...

No Man’s Sky: a game with 18 quintillion planets, all of which are unique and fully explorable.
It’s quite the tagline, and thanks to some extremely impressive ...

If you went back in time, even just by twenty years, and told the first person you met that one day millions of people would ...

At this point, you may have heard of a little mobile game called Pokémon GO. It’s doing rather well and is gaining a bit of ...

For those watching The Game Awards 2015, it was very disappointing when Geoff Keighley gave the news that Hideo Kojima would not be stepping up to ...

There’s been plenty of discussion over downloadable content ever since it became the norm during the last console generation. Older gamers didn’t like the idea ...

It’s been a rough generation for Nintendo. Plenty of amazing titles have graced the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, but the latter has definitely left ...

Whenever E3 comes around, most gamers have their attention on the corner of the game world they identify with. Die-hard PlayStation fans will have their ...

The Penny Arcade Expo, Game Developers Conference, and Gamescom are a few of the many huge trade fairs small developers dream of attending. Who wouldn’t ...

Another year, another opportunity for the biggest names in the industry to show us what they’ve got cooking for us. E3 is more than just ...

Compared to the history of film and television, video games are still pretty much in their infancy. One can also argue that games are advancing ...

NYFA’s own Game Design instructor Scott Rogers caught up with Grettir Ólaffson, who recently graduated from the New York Film Academy’s Game Design program, to ...