"In my career, I've probably coded 'jumping' several dozen times," indie dev and RexEngine creator Muir Freeland tells Gamasutra. "I wanted to do that one last time, and be done with it." ...

Games for Change has announced the finalists in the running for awards at its 14th annual Games for Change Festival. ...

Two of the developers behind Qube 2 have come together to create Advect Productions, a hybrid studio focused both on developing narrative-driven games and supporting other indie game makers. ...

Game industry vets Anthony Palma and Cade Peterson chat with Gamasutra about Jump, their new indie game subscription service that aims to give passed-over games their time in the sun. ...

This week's longform game article/video highlights include GDC's Indie Summit Failure Workshop, an oral history of NBA Jam, and lots more. ...

Compulsion Games' Whitney Clayton speaks at GDC 2017 about research, world building, and production challenges on We Happy Few, a game set in a procedurally-generated '60 dystopian drug paradise. ...

"The basic sword is pretty boring - you just hack and slash. But then, the next iteration of that sword might be, if you've got less than fifty percent health, then it does critical hits at all times." ...

The studio that brought us premium AAA games like Spec Ops: The Line explains how they adapted to the different requirements and demands of free-to-play for their combat flight simulator Dreadnought. ...

Game developers Adriaan de Jongh, Michael Molinari and Tim Rogers run through the mistakes made and lessons learned from creating games that would eventually flop in some way. ...

"Being both the composer and game developer helped a lot. Music wasn't an afterthought; I was able to take it into account from the very beginning of development." ...