Pattern Language for Game Design

Adapting the work of Christopher Alexander to teach Game Design

Can we design games that are ‘good’? What does that mean? How can we do it? The answers could change game design.

The website patternlanguageforgamedesign.com is a Pattern Library. It holds the game design patterns from the book Pattern Language for…

When you arrive on the Pattern Library site, you will see a list of nine Pattern titles and descriptions and a pagination widget. If you…

If you are ready to begin contributing to the Pattern Library, then you will need to register for an account. To create an account, click…

The Games Reference on the Pattern Language for Game Design site contains all of the games referenced by patterns on the site in their…

Detailed instructions about the process of deriving a pattern are found in the book, Pattern Language for Game Design.

Pattern Confidence

This article explains how to enter games into the Games Reference on the Pattern Language for Game Design website.

I have so many things that I want to do to make the Pattern Library website more useful, and so many things I want to do to advance the…

First off, this is not a legal document. I may need to prepare a formal EULA for the site at some point, but this is not it. This is a set…

The Pattern Library website is intended to be a robust resource for the readers of the book Pattern Language for Game Design and for game…

Most game developers will agree that we need a shared language to talk to each other about games. A language to communicate our ideas to…

General Patterns Exercise