What Does it Mean to Analyze Game Design?
If there's one aspect of the game industry that is as mysterious as game design, it is game analysis. There may be hundreds, or even thousands at this point, of magazines, sites, journalists, and YouTubers, all reviewing video games, but it takes a careful eye to analyze a game. For today's post, I want to talk about some of the traps that you can fall into when it comes to analyzing a title and trying to understand the implementation and intent by the designer.