"Having two bosses...it's not streamlined," said Red Hook's Tyler Sigman at GDC today. "But we truly believe the game would not have been successful without that messy, imperfect structure." ...

"Taking about comedy is one of the least funny things," said West of Loathing game dev Zach Johnson as he opened his talk at GDC 2018 today about the art of writing good comedy games. ...

"I came to realize that composing the page was more interesting to me that sequential storytelling," shared Gorogoa dev Jason Roberts "I had to do something with it, even if it wasn't going to be a comic." ...

Fullbright's Steve Gaynor and Nina Freeman discuss the level design of Tacoma and how different facets of design depended on each other during development. ...

Laundry Bear Games' Gabby DaRienzo discusses how A Mortician's Tale innovates on death mechanics, and shares strategies on how game developers can best explore death in their own games. ...

Narrative director at Deck Nine and lead writer on Life is Strange: Before the Storm Zak Garriss discusses how to run a successful writer's room. ...

"Scope creep is a bad, dirty term, yet it's also been my fundamental development technique," joked Tom Francis, developer behind the games Heat Signature and Gunpoint. ...

The team behind The Witness has put out a call for submissions encouraging independent game designers from traditionally underrepresented groups to work on grid-based puzzle games. ...

At GDC 2018 game designer Jennifer Scheurle breaks down how some of the biggest games "trick" players, showcasing how being a good game maker sometimes requires taking advantage of human perception. ...

This week's longform writing/video highlights include helping gamers find undiscovered exoplanets, research about 'the trust spectrum' from Raph Koster, and lots more. ...