This week's Video Game Deep Cuts long read/video highlights include include Hitman level design, What Remains of Edith Finch, and much, much more. ...

Steven Peeler has been developing RPGs as Soldak Entertainment for 13 years now, from his first title Depths of Peril up to last year's Zombasite. Here, he opens up about the things he's learned. ...

There's a laundry list of changes to the engine, of course (most notably, support for Nintendo's new Switch console), but this also marks the end of Unity 5's development cycle. ...

Butterscotch Shenanigans' Sam Coster speaks at GDC 2017 about the making of the studio's hit game Crashlands, which was made after he faced his mortality in the wake of a serious cancer diagnosis. ...

An early design document shared by Spry Fox co-founder Daniel Cook offers an interesting look at the initial ideas and mechanics that would eventually become the roguelike Road Not Taken. ...

In the wake of GDC's first Board Game Design Day, Gamasutra chats with Warren Spector, David Sirlin, Soren Johnson, and other devs about the enduring value of studying (and playing) tabletop games. ...

"We'll get like 300 submissions for each event, no sweat," longtime game event curator David Hayward tells Waypoint. "10 years ago, you could pick any indie game, and it'd be unusual and interesting." ...

The team at Astroneer developer System Era announced today that studio cofounder Paul Pepera passed away yesterday due to undisclosed circumstances. ...

At GDC 2017, D-Pad's Jo-Remi Madsen & Simon Stafsnes Andersen speak about how their vibrant 2016 game Owlboy was designed to look like it was 10 years' worth of work, rather than 10 years out of date. ...

All of the creatures in Rain World have their own survival needs. Outside of the player's field of view, they're still alive, hunting food, getting into territorial fights, and finding new homes. ...