Category: Guides

The Complete Guide to Game Design Fundamentals

Most “complete guide to game design fundamentals” articles you’ll find online are just collections of buzzwords designed to make you feel like you need a PhD to build a fun loop. They’ll talk about “player agency” and “emergent gameplay” in these lofty, academic ways, but they never tell you what happens when your math is…

By Tobias Lindqvist January 17, 2026 Off

The Complete Guide to Making a Game Alone

If you search for a “complete guide to solo game development” right now, you’re going to find a thousand tutorials telling you to master Unreal Engine, buy a high-end drawing tablet, or learn how to optimize shaders. It’s all noise. Most of those “guides” are just marketing for tools or ways to make you feel…

By Tobias Lindqvist January 8, 2026 Off

The Complete Guide to Starting in Game Development

Most “complete guide to starting game development” tutorials online are just glorified sales pitches for expensive engine plugins or math textbooks that assume you want to spend your weekends calculating vector trajectories instead of actually making a game. They treat development like a linear climb up a mountain, but if my time moderating guild forums…

By Tobias Lindqvist January 4, 2026 Off