Game Design Deep Dive: Metroidvania
Jun 2025 · CRC Press
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About this ebook
Game Design Critic and expert Joshua Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and confusing, genres out there. Metroidvania is a genre of high‐highs and low‐lows, and Josh is taking up the task to explain what a metroidvania is, the very long history and variety of it, and what you need to do to create one yourself.
• A look at the history of metroidvania design
• A primer on 2D platforming UI/UX
• Explaining the design and specific elements that make a metroidvania or
could be applied to other genres
• Perfect for designers and students alike
About the author
Joshua Bycer is a Game Design Analyst with over a decade of experience writing for major sites, creating content on YouTube, and the author of the Game Design Deep Dive series. In that time through Game‐Wisdom.com, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games.
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