Monomi Park chief Nick Popovich speaks at length about the "secret sauce" that helped Slime Rancher's slimes capture so many players' hearts: the stories they helped the player tell. ...

The publishing venture aims to partner with indie developers to both bring their games to new platforms and help them expand into other forms of media. ...

Gamasutra contributor Katherine Cross digs into Order of the Oven Mitt, a new edible game from game designer Jenn Sandercock. ...

"I let myself look on the game from a distance. I''ll do my best to analyze those key design features that I think did the most benefit. These are the things that I will remember for my future projects." ...

"Despite featuring zombies and developing a game where the foreboding sense of danger never leaves you, we choose not to mimic the artistic direction of similar titles." - Gwenaël Massé, artist on Dead Cells. ...

Look back on this chat with SpyParty developer Chris Hecker, and Sub Rosa's Alex Austin about deception as a game mechanic, and why it lends itself so well to multiplayer. ...

A veteran video game programmer recalls time spent at embattled game studio MidBoss, and offers suggestions for surviving a mismanaged, toxic workplace. ...

Many real-time strategy games are built around the idea that the players who can churn out the most damage per second are the winners. Let's talk about how to subvert that. ...

"The user interface," says developer Jason Rohrer. "Part of it is me figuring out as a solo developer, how to make a game that's as big as all the content that's in the real world, right?" ...

This week's longform article highlights include musings on guns in games, a postmortem of Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, & a profile of a top retro YouTuber, among others. ...