Tutorials might feel tedious in most games, but some titles bring a welcome twist to them. The best tutorials teach game ...

Sheri Graner Ray is no stranger to the game industry or game designers. She has been making games since 1990, is the author of Gender Inclusive Game Design - Expanding the Market, a co-founder of the ...

Credit: Portal 2 sets a great standard for tutorials - it's funny and quick, and the patronizing nature of telling the player how to progress is explained in the narrative. Games have a lot of ...

Tutorials are the sections at the start of video games where players are given a brief introduction to how the game that they’re about to play works. From introducing them to an overview of the plot ...

To many, creating their own video game feels something like a far-off dream: It’s something only the artistically inclined with plenty of time on their hands could accomplish. But the truth of the ...

I can't help but feel like developer BubbleTabby was intentionally luring me into a false sense of security with its ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Of all the many valid reasons I’m still playing The Witcher 3, there’s one that’s not related to the game’s quality. If I put it down for too long, ...

On the other side of the spectrum, some games go so overboard with the tutorialization that players don't get to enjoy the ...

Older games have a tendency not to explain things. It's a rarity to see a tutorial in classic releases, and even then you're not guaranteed to receive any lessons, as evidenced by Driver's infamous ...