At GDC 2017, game industry vet Jason Della Rocca offers advice on everything from leading a team to securing funding to marketing your game and keeping your head straight throughout the whole process. ...

Game designers create with elegance in mind, while players are more likely to opt for efficiency. Here's how Motion Twin tweaked Dead Cells after players ignored some of that design elegance. ...

"It's really important for us to find the correct amount of accuracy versus comfort. It's very different to read about a thing, and imagine it, and directly interact with a dead body." ...

Two former Lionhead devs who loved to play brawlers on their lunch hour went indie, and crafted the beat 'em up Deadbeat Heroes. They discuss how the combo system came together with Gamasutra. ...

This week a group of Patreon users published an open letter pushing back on Patreon's recent public update regarding how and when it decides whether an 'adult' project can use its platform. ...

"We're big fans of the Call of Cthullu tabletop game. Tracking Sanity, Professionalism, Investigation and Neurosis (SPIN) came directly from our experiences with many forms of tabletop role playing." ...

At GDC 2016 Poly Bridge developer Patrick Corrieri details the game's replay sharing feature: a powerful tool that lets any game give ownership of player-created content back to the the player. ...

The colorful dev Jeff Minter and the Llamasoft team transposed their trademark shooter style into VR for their latest title Polybius, without sacrificing quality or giving the player motion sickness. ...

If you're an indie dev looking to get your work in front of people, know that the Indie Megabooth folks are seeking submissions for games to appear in the (Mega)booth at GDC 2018 and PAX East 2018. ...

We talk to the developers of Dead Cells, Caveblazers, and OlliOlli about the challenges, the appeal, and the difficulty of implementing a Daily Run in their games. ...