Playing

Episode 1: How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology

Episode 2: How Thief's Stealth System Almost Didn't Work

Episode 3: How Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic Failed

Episode 4: How Serious Sam's Demo Saved the Game From Extinction

Episode 5: How Star Control II Was Almost TOO Realistic

Episode 6: How Aliens versus Predator's Late Design Change Made It a Classic

Episode 7: How Total War: Rome II's Ambition Was Almost Its Undoing

Episode 8: How Dead Space's Scariest Scene Almost Killed the Game

Episode 9: How Blade Runner Reinvented Adventure Games

Episode 10: How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding

Episode 11: How MechWarrior 5's Team Fixed Their Player-Killing Level Generator

Episode 12: How Amnesia: The Dark Descent Tricked Players Into Scaring Themselves

Episode 13: How Slay the Spire’s Original Interface Almost Killed the Game

Episode 14: How Localizing Return of the Obra Dinn Nearly Sunk the Game

Episode 15: How This War of Mine Plays on Your Emotions

Episode 16: How Subnautica Succeeded Without Weapons

Episode 17: How Dead Cells Cheated to Make the Game More Fun

Episode 18: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game

Episode 19: How Mind Control Saved Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Episode 20: How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM

Episode 21: How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation

Episode 22: How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations

Episode 23: How Homeworld Almost Got Lost in 3D Space

Episode 24: How Netflix's "Extraction" Engineered a 12-Minute, One-Shot Action Scene

Episode 25: How Alan Wake Was Rebuilt 3 Years Into Development

Episode 26: How "Robert the Bruce" Continued the Story of "Braveheart" Under Brutal Conditions

Episode 27: How NBA JAM Became A Billion-Dollar Slam Dunk

Episode 28: How Amazon’s “Undone” Animates Dreams With Rotoscoping And Oil Paints

Episode 29: How One Gameplay Decision Changed Diablo Forever

Episode 30: How Forza's Racing AI Uses Neural Networks to Evolve

Episode 31: How Deus Ex Blended Genres To Change Shooters Forever

Episode 32: How Gears Of War Almost Didn't Have Multiplayer