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"01a0c55b-28a0-70b8-8801-650d62215cc9", "title": "Balancing Parries for Single Player", "url": "https://critpoints.net/2018/03/19/balancing-parries-for-single-player/", "published_at": "2018-03-19T23:31:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-28a0-70b8-8801-650d62de6374", "title": "How to Cater to Fighting Game Beginners", "url": "https://critpoints.net/2018/03/17/how-to-cater-to-fighting-game-beginners/", "published_at": "2018-03-17T23:30:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-28a0-70b8-8801-650d632d4748", "title": "Fighting Game Auto-Combos", "url": "https://critpoints.net/2018/03/15/fighting-game-auto-combos/", "published_at": "2018-03-15T23:07:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-28a0-70b8-8801-650d63d207bf", "title": "What Should be Prioritized in a Fighting Game?", "url": "https://critpoints.net/2018/03/13/what-should-be-prioritized-in-a-fighting-game/", "published_at": "2018-03-13T20:01:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-28a0-70b8-8801-650d64c670c4", "title": "What’s a “Mechanic”?", "url": 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2026

Tennis’s Trick to Balancing Asymmetric Games original ↗

14 Jul 2026

How Do Games Make Characters Touch the Game World?original ↗

22 Apr 2026

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17 Apr 2026

Dialectics & Conflicting Priorities: The Tension that Binds Games Together original ↗

7 Apr 2026

Melee Attacks in PVP Must Be Fast!original ↗

1 Mar 2026

2025

Against Immersion: The Holodeck Must Burn original ↗

15 Dec 2025

Why Don’t We Know How to Design Games?original ↗

18 Sept 2025

Player Agency Doesn’t Make Sense original ↗

16 Sept 2025

Boosting Enemy Stats is not “Artificial Difficulty”original ↗

16 Sept 2025

Design Space: Dimensions of Game Design original ↗

21 Aug 2025

10 Years of Critpoints original ↗

18 May 2025

Building Counterplay for PvP Games original ↗

7 May 2025

I Don’t Really Like Deus Ex original ↗

19 Feb 2025

How to Code Fighting Game Motion Inputs original ↗

5 Feb 2025

2024

VR is Focusing on the Wrong Things original ↗

16 Dec 2024

Scrubs & Johns: A Defense Against Bad Sportsmanship original ↗

7 Nov 2024

The Secret History of Zelda original ↗

2 Jul 2024

The Big Catch: Tacklebox Review original ↗

28 Jun 2024

Building Skill Tests @ Game Design Skills original ↗

14 Jun 2024

How to be a Good Fighting Game Community Member original ↗

2 Apr 2024

Parries are the Mindkiller original ↗

30 Mar 2024

Sometimes it’s No More than Mashing original ↗

22 Mar 2024

Roger Ebert was Right About Video Games and We Have Failed Him original ↗

20 Mar 2024

Game “Loops” are an Illusion original ↗

19 Mar 2024

It’s Not the Yellow Paint, It’s What the Paint Represents original ↗

3 Mar 2024

Cost Granularity in Card Games original ↗

18 Jan 2024

2023

Celia’s Tips for Clear Writing original ↗

5 Aug 2023

Pseudoregalia Review original ↗

30 Jul 2023

How to Pick a Fighting Game Character original ↗

3 Jun 2023

What is Charmed Chains? (My New Card Game)original ↗

30 May 2023

Card Game Design as Systems Architecture original ↗

26 May 2023

Witcher 2 Review original ↗

18 May 2023

Mashing: Rote Memory vs System Mastery original ↗

16 May 2023

Tiers are for Queers original ↗

14 May 2023

How do you Set the MAXIMUM LIMIT? (For Health & such)original ↗

14 May 2023

How Magic’s Mana System Divides its Design Space original ↗

10 May 2023

The Hypothetical Worst Fighting Game original ↗

9 May 2023

What’s the Deal with Auto Combos?original ↗

4 May 2023

Tabletop Game Designers Know What’s Up original ↗

25 Apr 2023

SF6 is the Intro Game the Genre Needs original ↗

25 Apr 2023

Frame Data Patterns that ALL Game Designers Should Know original ↗

21 Feb 2023

Blocking is Cool Actually original ↗

1 Feb 2023

2022

Sekiro is not a Souls-like original ↗

21 Apr 2022

The Traveling Soulsman original ↗

12 Mar 2022

Emergent Gameplay in Fighting Games original ↗

6 Mar 2022

2021

How Fighting Games can Retain Players original ↗

7 May 2021

Visualizing the Skill Curve original ↗

19 Mar 2021

Dunkey Gets Dunked On original ↗

22 Feb 2021

FPS Boss Fights Don’t Have to Suck Ft. Durandal original ↗

27 Jan 2021

2020

Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy Review original ↗

14 Dec 2020

Mirror’s Edge Review original ↗

31 Oct 2020

Isomorphism & Asymmetry original ↗

24 Sept 2020

Kill Your Sacred Cows original ↗

19 Sept 2020

Designing AGAINST Speedrunners original ↗

18 Sept 2020

Designing for Speedrunners original ↗

16 Sept 2020

How Dark Souls Changed Combat original ↗

12 Sept 2020

Wonderful 101’s User Experience is a Nightmare original ↗

22 Jun 2020

Doom Eternal Review ft. S.G.S.original ↗

8 Jun 2020

Transitive (Efficiency Race) vs Non-Transitive (Rock Paper Scissors)original ↗

1 Jun 2020

You don’t know what Game Feel is, read the damn book please!original ↗

23 May 2020

Are Fan Expectations More Important Than Quality? ft. Durandal original ↗

23 May 2020

Gamedevs Should Not (Exactly) Copy My Criteria to Make a Successful Game original ↗

22 May 2020

Play Western Games on the 2nd Hardest Difficulty original ↗

15 May 2020

Dead Cells Review original ↗

30 Apr 2020

A Critique of Doom Eternal’s Story original ↗

19 Apr 2020

Nuzzles: Not a Puzzle original ↗

15 Apr 2020

The Souls Story Formula original ↗

14 Apr 2020

What makes good combat?original ↗

29 Mar 2020

What the Heck is Paired Animation?original ↗

24 Mar 2020

Doom 2016 Review (Guest Post by Durandal)original ↗

15 Mar 2020

What is “Souls-Like”?original ↗

11 Mar 2020

The “Silver Bullet” Game Design Problem original ↗

12 Feb 2020

What should be in a review?original ↗

24 Jan 2020

2019

Why FEAR 1 Is The Most Important Hitscan Shooter – ft. Durandal original ↗

20 Nov 2019

SFV Proposed fixes original ↗

18 Nov 2019

What’s the point of combos in fighting games?original ↗

11 Nov 2019

Guest Post: Durandal on DESYNC original ↗

7 May 2019

What does Agency mean in a Game?original ↗

4 May 2019

Cultivating Possibility Space original ↗

3 May 2019

Don’t Diss a Genre You Don’t/Refuse to Understand original ↗

16 Feb 2019

Riddles, Puzzles, and Games original ↗

13 Feb 2019

2018

How to Make the Best Worst Action Game Ever original ↗

22 Oct 2018

How to Actually Change Someone’s Mind original ↗

16 Sept 2018

Learning a New Combo original ↗

16 Sept 2018

Reworking DMC’s Controls original ↗

9 Jul 2018

Most Innovative Recent Game original ↗

1 Apr 2018

Cool Airdashes (unlike Hollow Knight’s)original ↗

31 Mar 2018

“Fun,” The Deepest Buzzword?original ↗

29 Mar 2018

Speedgames Ruined by the Patch original ↗

27 Mar 2018

Running Away is Deep!original ↗

25 Mar 2018

The Barrier to Entry original ↗

23 Mar 2018

DBFZ Impressions original ↗

21 Mar 2018

Balancing Parries for Single Player original ↗

19 Mar 2018

How to Cater to Fighting Game Beginners original ↗

17 Mar 2018

Fighting Game Auto-Combos original ↗

15 Mar 2018

What Should be Prioritized in a Fighting Game?original ↗

13 Mar 2018

What’s a “Mechanic”?original ↗

11 Mar 2018

Beginner’s Traps original ↗

9 Mar 2018

Animation East vs West original ↗

9 Mar 2018

Weird Controls are Good for You original ↗

7 Mar 2018