This week's top game articles/videos include the story behind Far Cry 5, a wizard-sniffing text adventure, the hillbillies of Grand Theft Auto Online, and lots more. ...

Jane Ng is lead artist at Campo Santo and presented at the NYU Game Center lecture series about the environmental art of Firewatch, discussing how she only created 23 unique trees for the entire game. ...

Game designer and musician Greg Heffernan walks Gamasutra through the process of blending inspirations as diverse as jazz and immersive sims to build his first-person thriller The Norwood Suite. ...

Dynamic Pixels lead designer Nikita Kolesnikov tells Gamasutra a tale of how the small mobile studio scaled up to build a stealth horror game with a terrifying AI -- and what went awry along the way. ...

Game designer Rob Baumgarten created The Games Tree, a playable Christmas tree installation on display in London funded through a partnership with Games London and Network Rail. ...

"As soon as we weighted the decisions of the player with consequences on the 4 dimensions of power, we gave a lot of meaning to very simple swiping gestures," says François Alliot, creator of Reigns ...

Lead Animator at Lab Zero Mariel Cartwright presents a live 2D animation demo at GDC 2015 demonstrating how the fighting game Skullgirls was animated. ...

Indie game developer Lars Doucet examines the design philosophy behind Bennett Foddy's latest release, Getting Over It. ...

The team at Mimimi Productions share the lessons they learned while making Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the real-time tactical stealth game they first released a year ago today. ...

A diverse array of lauded developers and industry professionals make up the juries of the GDC 2018 Independent Games Festival, who will decide the finalists for next year's awards. ...