The curious story of how Camouflaj's episodic game République made its way from iOS in 2013 to Steam and then onto PS4 involves an engine overhaul, a port house, and a tricky overseas deal. ...
The 21st annual Independent Games Festival has closed its call for game submissions with over 500 fantastic entries, from Return of the Obra Dinn to Speed Dating for Ghosts! ...
Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro talks Gamasutra through the design of his new studio's first game, The Missing, and how he hopes it will prove him a good game designer -- not just an interesting storyteller. ...
Compulsion Games' narrative director Alex Epstein explores how, with a little help from Early Access feedback, the systems and world of We Happy Few evolved around its narrative. ...
In this "Making of GDC" blog post, Game Developers Conference GM Katie Stern discusses how the submissions process works for all the talks you see at the show every year. ...
A detailed, but practical take on transferring bits and networking architecture for a real-time strategy game. ...
This week's highlights include Uri Geller vs. Pokemon, why we need pessimistic games, a look at Ubisoft's Starlink, & lots more besides. ...
†Death's Gambit literally began as a google doc of boss ideas," says Alex Kubodera, co-founder of Death's Gambit dev White Rabbit, in this deep dive into the boss-centric game's combat design. ...
Gamasutra spoke to one half of Washbear and co-developer of Parkasaurus, Chris McQuinn to explore the design and intent of the slightly-silly dino zoo sim Parkasaurus. ...
At GDC 2012, Naughty Dog's Kaitlyn Burnell took to the stage to question conventional game dev wisdom and ask: when you learn to follow game design rules, when is it right to break them? ...