Interested in potentially serving as a judge for the 2017 Independent Games Festival Awards? Now's your chance! ...

As the role of publishers changes, how useful are they really, for indies? And which publishers can actually do effective marketing these days? ...

"Nobody cares how hard you worked or how much passion you put into your game," says Mitch Gitelman of Harebrained Schemes. "All they see is the delta between what they expected and what you delivered." ...

"In the narrative, I always look up to Edgar Wright's movies, like Hot Fuzz, [in which] you can see all these mini-stories happening in the background if you look really close," says dev Oleg Sergeev. ...

Designing a game around a single screen can be hard enough--what about multiple screens in local space? This mobile/PC hybrid tries to do just that, using players' phones or tablets as controllers. ...

As part of the GDC 2016 Game Career Seminar, game designer Lauren Scott took the stage to talk about some healthy habits she's honed to become a successful game maker. ...

If you've been thinking of trying your hand at GameMaker, now's a good time: The folks at Humble Bundle and Yoyo Games have teamed up once again to offer it (and some extras) in a PWYW bundle. ...

Got a great idea for a talk that would fit in well at the 2017 Game Developers Conference Community Management Summit? Great news: Now's the time to submit it & potentially become a GDC 2017 speaker! ...

Indie game development is becmoning more financially viable in China. For instance, the early access title Lost Castle has already sold 130,000 copies, 100,000 of them in its home country. ...

Asummary of some of the week's most interesting video game culture/development stories, from Dan Pinchbeck on storytelling to Brendon Chung on Quadrilateral Cowboy. ...