This week's longform article highlights include behind-the-scenes on Hidden Folks, anÊinterview about the Coin-Operated Americans book, interviews from E3, and much more. ...

At GDC 2017, longtime strategy game dev Soren Johnson explained how he set out to do just that in Offworld Trading Company, an "economic RTS" that's more about macro-strategy than micro-management. ...

Film Victoria has provided an undisclosed amount of funding to nine games being created in Victoria, supporting over 40 game development positions in the process. ...

It's a cute visual walkthrough of the devs' process, which evidently involves illustrator Sylvain Tegroeg drawing a ton of cartoonish objects and figures on paper, then scanning them using a cheap scanner. ...

In game development, not everything goes as planned. That also goes for running a game event for your fans. ...

In game development, not everything goes as planned. That also goes for running a game event for your fans. ...

Watch this seminal speech from the 1992 CGDC which sees Crawford charge out of the room (and out of the commercial game industry, really) in pursuit of the "dragon" of truth, beauty, and art in games. ...

As we watched the E3 press conferences this year, Gamasutra staff exchanged opinions about what the changing format of these events might mean for developers. ...

"Seeing such modern high-fidelity animation applied to such low-resolution art was a pretty bold look to my eye, and not one I'd seen anywhere else."- Barney Cumming, artist on Powerhoof's Crawl ...

At GDC 2017, Epic Games' Ben Lewis-Evans dispels the "neuromyths" around dopamine and offers devs a deep dive into the psychology behind reward systems in game design. ...