"We had set a bunch of stretch goals that we thought, at best, might be hit at the very end of the campaign, but they were all reached within a few days." ...

"We were overwhelmed by this desire for everything to be interactive. It took us maybe a whole year to understand how we could shape the game in a way that that no longer was a problem." ...

"Cities finally let me see my creative side, it let me be more creative again," artist Matt Crux told PC Gamer in a new feature on game modders. "Before that, I felt like I was worthless." ...

At GDC 2016, Danny Day of QCF Design (Desktop Dungeons) talked frankly about what indie teams shipping their first game should expect post-release, based on detailed surveys of indie game dev teams. ...

During GDC X One Life Left, Treachery in Beatdown City developer Shawn Alexander Allen discusses how increasing the quantity of marginalized characters in a game can also increase their quality. ...

"In this article I will describe the iterations and considerations during the development process that shaped the choice-based mechanic and the feeling of impactfulness of decisions in the final game." ...

This week's 'long reads/standout game videos' highlights include a mess of GDC talk goodness, plus Resident Evil 7/Biohazard's making-of, the role of mystery in games, & lots more. ...

�At the end of the day, the work is the work,� said game designer Margaret Robertson in her talk at GDC today about what she's learned in closing her indie game studio and joining Dots dev Playdots. ...

"We started from the idea of an interactive graphic novel and how that would work, bringing together an adventure game sensibility with Inkle's text flow style." ...

Game developers who want to get their games on the soon-to-launch Nintendo Switch should be prepared for a strict submission process, at least here in the console�s early days. ...