Vernacular Games

An examination of the concept of failure handling and how we approach it in real life, with a focus on education systems at large and how video games effect one's personal approach to failure handling.

The last part of our examination of gross player failure handling methods. Here we examine the resume style of gross player failure handling, and give some closing remarks on gross player failure handling methods overall.

Join us as we continue our examination of gross player failure handling, this time exploring the concepts involved in the Reload style.

Part one of an examination of the concept of failure handling in video games. In this portion, we briefly define each of the three methods that we've observed, and then dig into the Reset style and its implications on gameplay.

For this podcast, we take a moment to create and define our lexicon for analyzing games and their interactions with players.

Part four of our talk about the development of Vernacular Games' first title, Highway to the Moon. Here we discuss elements of the game's core design and our reasoning behind many of the design decisions we made.

A continuation of the Highway to the Moon podcast set. In this portion, we talk about the design of our tools for making HTTM and their impact on the game development process.

Part 2 of the Highway to the Moon set. Here we talk about some of what went into building our own engine from scratch and the pros and cons that came with doing so.

We look back at the development process for our first game Highway to the Moon. In this portion we talk about the situation that predicated its creation.

An examination of Boss Design in games with a focus on the purpose of Bosses and what makes them good or bad when it comes to implementation.