As SGDQ kicks off its yearly charity speedrunning marathon, take a look at these tips from the Spelunky, Shovel Knight, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and Axiom Verge devs on making speedrunable games. ...
Yoku's Island Express dev Linus Larsson speaks to how Villa Gorilla wound up merging pinball with platforming elements, how they iterated on the idea, and what challenges they faced along the way. ...
This week's highlights include a discussion on 'asset flips' and store-bought assets for games, an emotive postmortem of canned arcade game Primal Rage II, and lots more besides. ...
Tabletop RPG developer Avery Alder analyzes her latest game through the lens of her past work, exploring themes of collaboration, conversational storytelling, and approachability along the way. ...
Producing believable, satisfying voice acting for your game is tricky business, so Gamasutra sat down with Khris Brown to explore how high-quality voicework in games comes together. ...
"There is little to no documentation on this specific type of first-person view...[so] I wanted to write about it. Especially since I had a few issues which took me a bit of time to resolve." ...
Dead Space 2's J White, Limbo's Martin Stig Andersen, and One Single Life's Thom Kellar explore what goes into the creation of audio that really sticks with players and brings more to the game ...
Though Human: Fall Flat got its start in early access in 2016, the game's publisher notes that the online multiplayer patch released in late 2017 helped to "greatly expand" the game's audience. ...
Chris Bourassa & Tyler Sigman of Red Hook Studios: "We wanted to capture the human response to stress. Any person can break under pressure, and people break in different ways." ...
This week's highlights include lots of E3 news, a Grim Fandango reading to remember, and a stellar analysis of Another World/Out Of This World. ...