In a talk at GDC 2015, Sony Santa Monica's David Collins and Mike Niederquell talked at length about how they worked to iterate the sound design of the idiosyncratic game Hohokum with its developers. ...
"So how can we improve discoverability for games? From my perspective: better communities. Replacing forums with social media has a lot of upside, but the serious downside is that our conversations about games are hidden, or at best compartmentalized." ...
"Always apply common sense and kindness with how you approach people, but also what you present to them. From time to time, take a step back with your pitch and ask yourself honestly if you would appreciate how you behave." ...
"Procedural generation in the end is about iteration, about 'sculpting' your algorithms until they get to a point where they have varied results, but also achieve what you need them to." ...
We ask developers the best ways to trick their players on this, the day of April Fool's. ...
Speaking at GDC 2014, Klei's Kevin Forbes shares lessons learned from developing a polarizing game -- and how you can apply those lessons to find and foster the audience that will love your game. ...
"I am going to 'unpick' the extraordinary music of Jessica Curry: Christian music for video games by an atheist composer. My study will focus on her entire soundtrack output." ...
"Of all the awesome features in Unity, I find the ability to script the editor and make it do what you want using almost the same tools and API that the original developers used to make it one of the best features available to developers." ...
"When a game supports controllers, the player is likely using an analog stick at all times. Nailing the input processing can have a substantial impact on quality throughout the experience." ...
"What if we removed experience and years of study from the equation? How much would that level the play field? What if every chess game was different and you had to learn it on the fly?" ...