In this episode game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of 2016's Inside, which was ranked #92 on the Polaris List.

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• Citations

  • The Playdead Unofficial Museum, created by TEN RAN 432

  • How Inside's levels were designed, by Alex Wiltshire at Rock, Paper, Shotgun

  • Three GDC talks given by the Playdead team including

    • Huddle Up! Making the [SPOILER] of 'INSIDE', 2017

    • Low Complexity, High Fidelity: 'INSIDE' Rendering, 2016

    • Temporal Reprojection Anti Aliasing in INSIDE, 2016

In this first episode of Overworld, game design professor Dr. Ada Wish, playwright Katie Coleman, and elite gamer Gia Szekeres discuss the design of The Legend of Zelda (1986) and The Breath of the Wild (2017).

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Citations:
Super Nintendo, by Keza Macdonald (2025)
Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda (Influential Video Game Designers), by Jennifer Dewinter (2015)

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