In a puzzle game like Portal, you can’t have a puzzle that makes use of knowledge the player doesn’t have, or they’ll probably never work it out. However, it is a puzzle game, so surely it would be best to make learning a new mechanic a puzzle in itself. These are good steps to properly […]

It’s a common problem, where one person will say something and another will hear the same words, but each will think the words mean something different. Sometimes they might even hear different things, leading to further miscommunication. The problem isn’t the speaker, the listener, or even their communication skills. It’s human language. (I’ll concede that […]