In their paper “ Procedural Level Design for Platform Games,” programmers and researchers Kate Compton and Michael Mateas of the Georgia Institute of Technology used cell structures to ...

The game’s level design is a masterclass in visual storytelling, where clever puzzles emerge from natural environments—falling logs, tilted branches, dangling wires.

2D Zelda games offer mind-bending gameplay, tight level design, and a cozy aesthetic worth celebrating. Echoes of Wisdom shakes up the top-down format by putting Princess Zelda in the protagonist ...