Guides
Guides
How-tos, ideas and honest explainers about making games – from a birthday surprise and a team quiz to planning your own city builder.
How-to
How to write quiz questions that people actually enjoy
How to write quiz questions people enjoy: seven rules, weak versus strong examples, a difficulty curve for 10 questions and how to fact-check AI drafts.
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Gift ideas
A game as a gift: fifteen ideas by occasion
Fifteen ideas for a personalized game as a gift: anniversary, farewell, retirement, grandparents and more, with the genre, size and base price for each idea.
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Game design
How to design a platformer level: pacing, fairness and a three-level plan
How to design a platformer level that feels fair and fun: teach, test, twist, rest points, a three-level plan and how to brief an AI builder with your design.
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Game design
Tower defense design basics: paths, economy and a ten-wave curve
Tower defense design basics: paths versus mazes, the economy loop, tower and enemy roles, a ten-wave curve and tuning tips. Plus what you can build today.
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How-to
How to make a game without coding, step by step
Make your own game without coding, step by step: pick genre, size, style and extras, write a one-sentence idea, test, tweak and share – with a price example.
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Ideas
12 birthday game ideas you can make in minutes
Twelve ideas for a personal birthday game: quizzes, story adventures, a pet-hero platformer and more – each with the genre, the size and a sentence to copy.
7 min readEN · DE
Quiz & Party
Christmas quiz questions: 40 fact-checked questions with answers
40 fact-checked Christmas quiz questions with answers in four rounds: origins, world traditions, carols and stories, food and winter – plus a tie-breaker.
7 min readEN · DE
Teams & Work
A team-building quiz people actually enjoy: formats, plan and questions
How to run a team-building quiz that people enjoy: formats for office, remote and hybrid teams, a 30-minute plan, question types with examples and host tips.
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Teaching
Learning games in the classroom: a field guide for teachers and tutors
A practical guide to classroom learning games: why retrieval practice works, four lesson recipes, how to write quiz questions that teach, and privacy basics.
6 min readEN · DE
Strategy
Plan a city builder game: seven questions to answer first
Seven design questions to answer before you build a city builder: scarcity, goods, production chains, growth tiers, goals and tuning – with a worked example.
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Explainer
What AI can do in games: five popular claims, checked
AI and games: five popular claims tested against reality – full games from one sentence, perfect quiz questions, chatty characters, one-click music and video.
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Make a game for every occasion
Already know what you want to build? Jump straight to the page with examples, prices and a step-by-step guide.