Design Delve

JM8 and Ludo are delving into game design in this animated video essay series. New episodes every other Monday at 10 AM CT.

Curated by: Second Wind (65 videos)

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Tracks in this Playlist

• How Black Flag Fakes the Density of its Open World | Design Delve
• The Beautiful & Baffling Designs of Myst | Design Delve
• The Beautiful & Baffling Designs of Majora's Mask | Design Delve
• I Don’t Like 007 First Light's Level Design (and I'm Wrong) | Design Delve
• The Beautiful & Baffling Designs of Metal Gear Solid | Design Delve
• Final Fantasy 8 Is an Unequivocal Design MESS | Design Delve
• Why Are Some Games So Horrifically Addictive? | Design Delve
• Final Fantasy 7's Beautiful & Baffling Designs | Design Delve
• Resident Evil Requiem Has the Franchise's Worst and Best Designs | Design Delve
• Are MMOs a Dying Genre? | Design Delve
• The Horrendous User Interface of Hearthstone | Design Delve
• Path of Exile 2's Crafting System Hates You | Design Delve
• Time Mechanics Can Make or Break Your Game | Design Delve
• Every Design Delve 2024 - 2025 Edition
• These Were 2025's Best-Designed Games | Design Delve
• The Hidden Secrets of Dark Souls Design | Design Delve
• Is Pokémon Intentionally Designed to Waste Your Time? | Design Delve
• Should Difficulty Options Even Exist? | Design Delve
• The Insane Imbalance of Hades II | Design Delve
• Hollow Knight: Silksong's Beautiful but Baffling Designs | Design Delve
• Hollow Knight Is Designed to Make You Feel Bad | Design Delve
• How Video Game Patents Are Hurting the Games Industry | Design Delve
• What Devs STILL Misunderstand About Open World Design | Design Delve
• I'm in Love With but Deeply Worried About Dune: Awakening | Design Delve
• Elden Ring Nightreign Is a Design Anomaly | Design Delve
• The Curse of Needlessly Copying Dark Souls | Design Delve
• Doom: The Dark Ages' Designers Think You're Dumb | Design Delve
• The Baffling Dungeon Designs of Oblivion | Design Delve
• Why Having Too Much Content Can Ruin a Good Game | Design Delve
• The Worst Tutorial of All Time | Design Delve
• Monster Hunter Keeps Making Itself Worse, and I Love That | Design Delve
• Ranking the Worst FromSoftware Swamps | Design Delve
• Over A Million Players Wasn't Enough for Prince Persia: The Lost Crown | Design Delve
• Marvel Rivals Is Beating Overwatch Because It's Broken | Design Delve
• The Top 5 Best-Designed Games of 2024 | Design Delve
• Is Live Service UI Designed to Confuse You? | Design Delve
• The Best Multiplayer Stealth Horror Game You're Not Playing | Design Delve
• The Worst Boss Fight of All Time | Design Delve
• Did This One Detail Ruin the Silent Hill 2 Remake? | Design Delve
• Does Astrobot Basically Play Itself? | Design Delve
• Is Concord the Biggest Gaming Failure of All Time? | Design Delve
• How Warcraft Has Kept Me Addicted for 16 Years | Design Delve
• Game Devs Lying to You is A Good Thing, Actually | Design Delve
• The Mechanic Killing Games Before They Start | Design Delve
• There's A Disease Infecting The Game Industry | Design Delve
• How Beyond Good and Evil Changed My Life | Design Delve
• The One Simple Mechanic Holding Elden Ring Back | Design Delve
• Designing the Secrets of Animal Well (ft. Billy Basso) | Design Delve
• Disco Elysium is Lying to You | Design Delve
• Why Balancing Multiplayer Games Is A NIGHTMARE (ft. Riot Mortdog) | Design Delve
• A Game Designer Ranks From Software's Healing Systems | Design Delve
• The Baffling Design Decisions of Dragons Dogma 2 | Design Delve
• Games Are So Pretty It's Ruining My Job | Design Delve
• The Secret to Making Any Game Satisfying | Design Delve
• Are Health Bars Making Games Worse? | Design Delve
• Looter Shooter Devs Still Don't Understand Loot | Design Delve
• Was Dark Souls' Blighttown a Mistake? | Design Delve
• Mario Kart's Balance Is Pure Depravity | Design Delve
• Can a Badly Designed Game Still be Good? | Design Delve
• How to Asset Flip Irresponsibly | Design Delve
• Why League of Legends' Design Encourages Toxicity | Design Delve
• The Worst Puzzle of All Time | Design Delve
• The Scarily Good Design of Alien: Isolation | Design Delve
• Designing an Underwater Temple That Doesn't Suck | Design Delve
• What Developers Misunderstand About Dark Souls Level Design | Design Delve