How do you keep players interested? "Combining both short and long-term progression provides the best combination of progression models to keep someone engaged in your title." ...

Campo Santo team members Nels Anderson and Jake Rodkin speak at length about how Firewatch is being designed to tell a story and allow meaningful player exploration/choice -- without combat. ...

Over 2,000 devs surveyed in GDC's State of the Industry survey answer the vague question: "Is there anything else you'd like to say about the game industry?" As you can imagine, it gets quite heated. ...

'Developing in Early Access is like working while naked in a transparent cube suspended above Times Square. But Darkest Dungeon is a stronger game for having gone through it.' ...

This post gets deep into world generation technique: "A heat map defines the temperature of our generated world. The heat map we are going to create will be based on latitude and height." ...

"I'm fascinated by all the things that lead up to people making up pastimes, toys and time-wasters generally referred to as 'games.' That includes where they live, who they associate with, how they regard themselves and each other." ...

"For the financial strength of the company we need to focus on a few products in the near term that have the ability to get to a retail release before Unsung Story is able to." ...

"We all want to make games played by YouTubers. That's only reasonable, given the role that YouTube has in game publicity in 2016. But what technical and aesthetic choices can we make to get the most out of their play sessions?" ...

Defender's Quest developer Lars Doucet on what Valve's getting right: "The games you see on your front page now depend mostly on you. And that's as it should be." ...

"I manage our in-house content team and cabal of freelancers who create the stories for Sunless Sea, Fallen London, Dragon Age: the Last Court, and our other projects. I'm still finding my feet! But here's five things I've learned so far." ...