Sheri Graner Ray is no stranger to the game industry or game designers. She has been making games since 1990, is the author of Gender Inclusive Game Design - Expanding the Market, a co-founder of the ...

Portal 2 sets a great standard for tutorials - it's funny and quick, and the patronizing nature of telling the player how to progress is explained in the narrative. Games have a lot of standard ...

Few video games are entirely self-explanatory. In the early glory days of arcades, instructions were printed on the cabinet around the edges of the screen. When video games came home, many titles were ...

Antonia Haynes is a Game Rant writer who resides in a small seaside town in England where she has lived her whole life. Beginning her video game writing career in 2014, and having an avid love of ...

In my time on this earth I’ve pledged allegiance to many masters. Learned men and women: Buddhists, dissidents, Jedi. Their words—always measured—tend to echo at critical junctures. Whenever I face ...

JRPGs are some of the most dense gaming experiences on the market. Ambitious ones typically ask players to not only learn the basics of how their combat works — which can be real-time, turn-based, or ...

Is it better to hand hold new players through a game tutorial to teach them all the mechanics and intricacies of a game, or is it better to let them figure things out on their own? The "tutorial level ...

Between work, sleep, errands, and other demands, the average gamer doesn't have as many hours as they'd like for their hobby. When you finally get the time, there's a nearly endless bounty available: ...

Tutorials are an integral part of any great video game. Not only do they give players a chance to learn the ropes and understand some basic mechanics, but they also introduce them to a brand-new world ...