Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!

[Taehl]

I recently found these articles. They describe various game design errors and critical annoyances (taken from real, often professional, games) and suggest solutions / improvements. So basically, it's a big, semi-humorous list of what not to do with your game. It's a good read.

http://www.designersnotebook.com/Design ... tabase.htm

[kikito]

A classic.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Very interesting lecture. Thanks for the link.
(Would love to have a full copy of the whole database on my laptop for offline reading)

[Xgoff]

i like the configurable controls and bad implemenations of configuration ones, because it's annoying when a game won't let you assign the same key to two mutually-exclusive functions