"Some players think that the point of Firewatch was going to be a reveal of the terrible truth about what is really going on. The ending we actually get is more unusual, more mature, and more interesting, in my opinion." ...
Organizers of GDC and the Game Narrative Summit are happy to announce the 2016 Student Narrative Analysis Competition winners, who all receive passes to this year's March conference. ...
Organizers run down a few great Design track talks at GDC 2016 next month, including a special return of the popular Game Design Challenge. This year's task: Make a game that takes 30 years to play! ...
"We have people that will fly down from a space station onto a planet and when they fly back up, the station isn't there anymore; the planet has rotated. People have filed that as a bug" ...
"Lots of games give as much agency as possible to the player and build the game around them, I wanted to make something where your interaction wasn't one where everything revolves around you." ...
'Making 2D top down characters for a 2-player game, how hard could it be? Pretty hard, but not impossible, as we found out in the course of four months." ...
"I come from traditional publishing. The transition from solitary keyboard hermit to part of a games team has been fun, sometimes painful, and taught me a great deal." ...
"I chose to base my implementation of the level system on the stage metaphor -- everything that comes into the scene (images, enemies, audio, cutscenes, etc) is an actor. Each actor is brought onto the stage via a cue." ...
Shiny Shoe has worked on games like Day of the Tentacle Remastered and The Banner Saga, and now the San Francisco, CA studio is looking for a gameplay and engine programmer to join the team. ...
In her DICE talk, writer Rhianna Pratchett delivered a paean to writing in games and offered advice on how to better integrate writers into teams -- and explained its benefits. ...