Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Folks from the squad working on new games at The New York Times share behind-the-scenes insights into the new game development process. Sandra Honigman (Product Manager), Devin Lizardi (Software Engineer), and Heidi Erwin (Senior Digital Puzzle Designer) walk through the process of bringing games to market, building new games, and designing puzzles. They discuss the making of the 2024 NYT game Strands, and some of the game design thinking behind 2023’s NYT game Connections.
Folks from the squad working on new games at The New York Times share behind-the-scenes insights into the new game development process. Sandra Honigman (Product Manager), Devin Lizardi (Software Engineer), and Heidi Erwin (Senior Digital Puzzle Designer) walk through the process of bringing games to market, building new games, and designing puzzles. They discuss the making of the 2024 NYT game Strands, and some of the game design thinking behind 2023’s NYT game Connections.
