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• The Measure of Mario pt.1
• The Learner's Garden: Video
• Improvisation #1 (P)layered Elements
• The Learner's Garden
• (P)layered Level Design
• Happy Belated B-Day Blog
• Co-unter-op Design
• Locks, Keys, & Obstacles pt.2
• Locks, Keys, & Obstacles pt.1
• Gameplay Dynamics
• The FPShuffle
• Puzzlement & Portability
• A Progress Worth Updating
• Help Needed!
• B.E.S Vactation 3
• for the Scale of Balance pt.4
• for the Steps of Development pt.3
• for the Feel of Design Space pt.2
• for the Love of Variation pt.1
• Blog Check #3
• Touch. Don't Look?
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Final Presentations
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 9, 10, & 11
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 7 & 8
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 6
• Critical-Apparel
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 5
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 4
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 3
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 2
• Critical-Gaming Pikmin Course: Week 1
• Advance Wars: Deep Difficulty Design
• The Interplay of Brawl
• The Interplay of Advance Wars
• The Interplay of Mario Strikers Charged
• Counterpoint: The Depth of Interplay pt.6
• What We Learn From Gaming
• Blog Check #2
• Counterpoint: The Depth of Interplay pt.5
• Everyone Is Doing The Mario
• Counterpoint: The Depth of Interplay pt.4
• The Perfect MachinEDU
• The Prince vs. deBlob
• Henry Hatsworth & Hybrid Games
• Blog Check #1
• Inward Innovation
• Counterpoint: The Depth of Interplay pt.3
• Counterpoint: The Depth of Interplay pt.2
• Counterpoint: The Depth of Interplay pt.1
• Counterpoint: Functional Blind Spots
• Exploit: Hackers Unite!
• Mirror's Edge 2D/3D: Reflection, Review, & Repair pt.3
• Mirror's Edge 2D/3D: Reflection, Review, & Repair pt.2
• Mirror's Edge 2D/3D: Reflection, Review, & Repair pt.1
• User Gen #1
• Picross vs. Sudoku & The Power of Forms
• Jumpman Review
• 2D + 2D = 3D pt.5
• 2D + 2D = 3D pt.4
• 2D + 2D = 3D pt.3
• 2D + 2D = 3D pt.2
• 2D + 2D = 3D pt.1
• Spelunky: A Game Design Gold Mine
• SmashBOARD
• What If We All Could See the Bigger Picture
• Variation, Rhythm, and Music
• A Progress Worth Saving
• Sonic: The Core Design and Beyond pt.4
• Sonic: The Core Design and Beyond pt.3
• Sonic: The Core Design and Beyond pt.2
• Sonic: The Core Design and Beyond pt.1
• Contrary Motion & Ditto Matches
• DS Design: Real Time Clock & Wifi
• DS Design: Dual Screen Gameplay
• Video Game Climaxes
• My GOTY 2008
• DS Design: Microphone
• BANG! A Look At An Interesting Card Game
• DS Design: Level Editors
• I ran as quickly as a hog
• A Few Comments on Rhythm and Timers
• Studying Video Games
• DS Design: Controls
• Cursor*10 FTW: Give Yourself A Hand
• Tension: Threats & Timers
• Heads Up. Looks Deep.
• DS Design: Maps
• Counterpoint: Suspension
• Wishing is Simple: A Look at an Interesting Indie Puzzle Game
• Oh What A Wonderful Time To Be Puzzled
• B.E.S Vacation 2
• DW Lesson 2.1: Influencing Brawl
• Set Pieces: Lights. Camera. Inaction?
• LBP Workshop: Points and (P)Layered Level Design
• LBP Workshop: Video
• LBP Workshop: Shapes & Space cont.
• Improvisation #1 cont.
• LBP Workshop: Sequence Breaking
• LBP Workshop: Alternate Paths
• LBP Workshop: Contrary Motion
• LBP Workshop: Shapes & Space
• Improvisation #1
• Storytelling Through Function pt.1
• DW Lesson 6: Polish
• Resistance is Futile
• Mirror's Edge Appetizer
• DW Lessson 5: Development
• I Am My Own Worst Enemy
• LittleBigPlanet Review and Repair pt.4
• Happy Birthday Critical-Gaming
• LittleBigPlanet Review & Repair pt. 3
• LittleBigPlanet Review & Repair pt. 2
• LittleBigPlanet Review and Repair pt.1
• CO OP Mechanics and Design pt. 3
• CO OP Mechanics and Design pt. 2
• DW Lesson 4.1: Pushing Bangai-O
• CO OP Mechanics and Design
• DW Lesson 4: Play and Push
• Pure Organic Level Design
• DW Lesson 3: The Game Idea
• Bangai-O Spirits Review
• DW Lesson 2: Influence
• The Function of Memory
• DW Lesson 1: Range and Limitations
• DW: Prerequisites
• Wario Land: Shake It! Review
• Be Careful. You Might Suck....Is That A Challenge?
• "wow... that's music!"
• Nintendo Stealth Conference: Let's Hit It.
• Shawn Elliott Approves of Critical-Gaming
• Samba De Amigo Critical Hit
• October Forecast
• The Genius of Slowdown
• Mega Man 9 Review & Repair
• LittleBig Fears
• GH:WT Music Studio Fears & Ideas
• What It Means To Be A Gamer
• Why Gamers Should Embrace Critical-Material
• Platformers DS: Doubleganger Siblings
• "It's Time We Have The Talk" ~Jonathan Blow
• Geometry Wars Evolutionary Design
• Braid Review weiveR diarB
• LittleBig Idea
• A Jonathan Low Blow
• N+ Review... Not a Score
• Bionic Commando Rearmed Review
• New Genre: Retro Evolved
• Everyday Shooter? Yesterday's Shooter
• Composition. This isn't a Game!
• Boktai Review: Fools and Stupids See the Light
• Difficulty Design: A Difficult Endeavour
• Customizable Stats Increase Abstraction and Deconstructs Gameplay
• Greater than the (Riemann) Sum of Its Parts?
• Luigi's Mansion vs. Drill Dozer in the Mechanical Mechanics Match-up
• The Force Unleased Demo Impressions
• Decay-Cycles and Natural Forms
• B.E.S Vacation
• Next-gen Fighters and the Flow of Combat pt. 4
• Next-gen Fighters and the Flow of Combat pt.3
• Next-gen Fighters and the Flow of Combat pt.2
• Next-gen Fighters and the Flow of Combat pt1 continued
• Next-gen Fighters and the Flow of Combat pt.1
• It's Official.....
• Drill Dozer and the Dangers of Static Space
• Folded Level Design
• Flywrench Review
• Taking CHARGE
• Pixel Junk Eden Demo Review & Repair
• Bite Sized Updates
• Overused Words?
• Organic and Inorganic Design
• Pikmin3D
• 3D Control of 3D
• The WiiR Cam Trio
• WiiR Cam
• ElectrOcean
• Let's Do It All Over Again
• Nintendoooooo!
• Wrapping up the Xbox
• Out of the XBox
• G4's Massive E308 Coverage Announced
• Introducing Critical-Hit
• Boom Blox: Initial Impressions & Re-review
• Optimized Aiming Deconstucts Playing
• The (possible) Source of Classical & Western Game Design
• How To Write A Critical Video Game Review
• 2D Mario Evolutionary Design
• Interplay....Gunplay
• A Mario Trio of Bullet Point Essays
• Mario Melodies: Final Exam
• Mario Melodies: Counterpoint part.3
• If Wall-e (the movie) Was A Game
• My Game is Better Than Your Game!
• Mario Melodies: Counterpoint part.2
• Mario Melodies: The Main Theme
• Oh the Pages You'll Number
• Mario Melodies: Counterpoint part.1
• Mario Melodies: Variation part.3
• Mario Melodies: Variation part.2
• Mario Melodies: Variation part.1
• Neo*RPG Interplay
• A Day's Delay
• Mario Melodies: Interplay part.2
• Mario Melodies: Interplay part.1
• Mario Melodies: Introduction
• A Simple Update and Kudos
• "I": Videogame's Greatest Character
• A Drebin Point of Contention
• Drebin #1: Asynchronous Time
• Drebin #1#2
• Just Call It A Game
• Finding the Essence
• Just a Few Things on My Mind....
• Where Wii Fits
• Wii Sad
• Mechanics and Abstractions part.4
• Mechanics and Abstractions part.3
• Mechanics and Abstractions part.2
• Mechanics and Abstractions part.1
• Nintendo & Items
• Mario Kart Wii and Beyond...
• An Interview: Carl
• An Interview with Dr. Mario Kart
• Mario Klutter
• Mario Kart = Mario Bros. on Wheels
• It's Mario Kart Week!
• Design Trend: If one is good...
• 2D vs 3D: Lost in Space
• Sigma vs. Dragon Sword
• An Issue with Creativity
• If Teaching was a Game pt. 2
• ANd-OR: Oh, the Possibilities
• GuitaRPG Update
• If Teaching was a Game
• Open Discourse 2: Let's Talk Yomi
• Design Challenge #5 Novint Falcon
• If Sheet Music Was A Game
• Open Discourse
• GuitART Styles
• Money Matters? The Value of a Rupee
• Link: He Speaks Like No Child
• From Minerals to Force Gems: Evolving the RTS Genre
• Decoupling the Player Input
• Function Creates Form: A Look at the Zelda Series Unifiying Design Philosophies
• A Bit of Research: Stale-Move Negation
• Seventh Impressions: ...and the ugly
• Sixth Impressions: Preserving the Fighting Spirit
• Fifth Impressions: Balance & Dynamics
• Fourth Impressions: Controllers
• Third Impressions: Lots of Lists
• Second Impressions: Big Differences
• First Impressions: Brawl
• It's a Secret to Everybody
• GuitaRPG: Fitting Form to Function
• Layton and the Clean Bill of Success
• GuitaRPG Features Showcase
• Reducing the Clutter
• The Language of Creators
• Critical Casts #5 Everyday Guitar Bros.
• Design Challenge #4
• Eureka! Level Design... I've found you.
• Design Challenge #1 Charlie Wilson's Advance Wars
• Critical Casts #4: Music Merging with Games
• Design Challenge #3
• Assembling Allies
• Critical Casts #3 GuitaRPG
• Critical Casts Episode 2
• Critical Casts are GO!
• [insert game here] Discourse
• Look. Don’t Touch.
• Sorry Sister. It’s just business
• Death, Milk, and Diving Suits
• BioShock: An RPG in Disguise
• The Aims of BioShock: Shoddy Shooting
• Lefty Loosy Righty Tighty
• Game with a Pencil
• Subversive Portal: Review
• Bioshock Defense Review
• GOTY: Gotta Have One
• Critical Casts ->12/05/07
• Even Jaffe Knows
• SMG - Edge Re-review
• What Being a Critic Does....
• Mass Effect- Game Informer Re-review
• Portal: Narrative
• Approaching Game Narrative Critique
• SMG- 1up Review of a Review
• SMG- Eurogamer Review of a Review & Player Response