Draft a single conversation by hand with three player replies, two that rejoin, one flag, and a read-aloud test, before any of it goes near your engine. This is a different slice from our earlier narrative design post: that one is an overview of five techniques, from a story spine to scoped branching, while this…
Design a HUD, feedback, input reach, and pause screen for a small game in any engine, so players understand what is happening without reading a paragraph. Good game UI is mostly invisible. Players glance, understand, and go back to playing. Bad UI makes them stop and read, or worse, miss something important. You do not…
A blank one-page game design document you can fill in for your own project in an evening and keep open while you build. A game design document does not need to be a hundred pages. For a solo developer, a long document is usually a way to avoid building. A single page does the real…
Build Roblox interfaces that hold up on phones, tablets, and monitors by using ScreenGuis, scale-based layouts, clear button feedback, and safe-area settings, then put it all together in a small score-and-button HUD. Players see your UI before they understand your game. If the score is cut off on a phone, or a button sits under…
A first Roblox UI is a ScreenGui and a button that works on your monitor. An advanced UI is the same button still visible on a phone, still reachable with a controller, and still understandable when the player is in a hurry. This piece builds a pause panel that survives those cases. Class names below…
An assistant that writes text can help you plan a level. It cannot know whether your jump lands, whether your collision is wrong, or whether the encounter is fair. This article is a workflow you can do with tools you already have: paper, the game engine you are already building in, and a general-purpose text…
Learn five practical narrative design techniques a solo developer can use, from a one-page story spine to branching that stays in scope and dialogue you test by reading it aloud. Writing a story for a game is not the same as writing a novel or a screenplay. The player is holding the controller. They will…
Professional GDD template and writing tips for indie and studio projects.
Modern UI/UX principles specifically for video games.
How to craft compelling stories and interactive dialogue in modern games.