This new award is interesting because it prominently highlights how important the care and feeding of live games has become in contemporary game dev, especially for big-budget studios. ...

Gamasutra takes a look back on what this intensely personal game about a youthful online romance has to say about the bonds that we form with one another via technology. ...

At GDC 2018, Hinterland Games founder Raphael van Lierop will examine how it's possible to successfully marry a linear, authored narrative experience to an open-world sandbox. ...

At GDC 2018, Hinterland Games founder Raphael van Lierop will examine how it's possible to successfully marry a linear, authored narrative experience to an open-world sandbox. ...

"For Sundered, we built a world with a very complex backstory," says Thunder Lotus Games creative director Will Dubé, "and then tried to communicate it throughout the game: through the monster and dungeon design." ...

At GDC 2017's UX Summit, a panel of prominent user experience researchers, creatives, and producers acknowledged the challenge and spoke frankly about the tricky business of making good UX in games. ...

This timeless 2015 story examines why some indies pay $300-$1k per platform to get their digital console game PEGI-rated for release in Europe, and how that charge affects their ability to make games. ...

Veteran game dev Laralyn McWilliams will explore the challenges of working in a creative field while dealing with stress, grief, & change, drawing on her own experiences dealing with cancer. ...

At GDC 2016's Narrative Summit, game and narrative designer Mata Haggis took the stage to walk devs through the value of leaving things unsaid when crafting stories for their games. ...

"I compare RPG Maker to a pencil. With a pencil there are techniques to learn, but compared to the other writing tools, it's the most simplistic one. But you can still create elaborate works with it." ...