Guides
Deck Building Basics: Why Your First Deck Loses
Consistency, curve and cutting your favourite card. The principles that apply across every trading card game, physical or digital.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Beginner
10 articles
Guides
Survival Crafting Games: Surviving the First Three Nights
Every survival game punishes the same beginner mistakes. Learn the shared grammar once and the next one is easy.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Speedrunning: Picking a Game and Getting a First Time
The hardest part of speedrunning is not execution. It is picking a category you will still enjoy after fifty attempts.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Sim Racing: What to Buy First and What Not To
The pedals matter more than the wheel, which is the opposite of how everyone spends their money.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Guides
RTS Beginner Guide: Build Order Before Everything Else
New RTS players lose because their economy stalls, not because they lost a battle. Fix the first and the second stops mattering.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Roblox
Roblox Scripting for Complete Beginners: The First Real Script
Events, parts and the small number of concepts that unlock everything else in Roblox Studio. No prior programming assumed.
Priya Shah·3 minAugust 12
Mobile
Mobile MOBA Beginner Guide: Lanes, Roles and Not Being a Liability
Mobile MOBAs are twenty-minute team games where one confused player loses it. Here is enough to not be that player.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Starting an MMO: The First Twenty Hours Without Burning Out
MMOs punish trying to do everything. The people still playing at month three ignored most of the game deliberately.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Fighting Games for Beginners: Getting Past the First Wall
Combos are not the barrier. Blocking, spacing and knowing when it is your turn are what separate beginners from intermediate players.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Starting a Souls Game Without Quitting in the First Hour
The habits that separate players who bounce off Souls games from those who get through them, from someone who bounced off three times first.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12