An ode to Portal 2’s incredible tutorial joke

Portal 2 ’s very best gag comes at the start of the game, in its tutorial stages, and spins Portal ’s game-design satire into ...
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How to load & use the prototype in Pathologic 3

The Prototype in Pathologic 3 is a crucial device that helps players travel through the Miasma without losing their minds.
Polygon

Sony patented AI-generated video game tutorials this year, and it sounds like a nightmare

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...
IEEE

Seamless Tutorial: Contextual State Transition Generation based on Player Internal Knowledge

Abstract: In the domain of game artificial intelligence, tutorial systems have seen limited advancement despite their critical role in onboarding players. Traditional tutorials often neglect ...
automaton-media

“Players hate them, and they won’t even try to look for them until they absolutely have to.” Japanese game developers discuss the pitfalls of tutorials

“Itchie”, a Japanese programmer and producer who used to work at game companies like Square and SNK, recently took to X to reflect on a fallacy that tripped him up earlier in his career as a developer ...