"Most independent developers start off as hobbyists. Unfortunately many of us keep the mindset of a hobbyist when trying to release a commercial game. This article will help you take your team to the next level." ...
As we get closer to GDC 2016, conference officials reveal a new talk from Tiger Style's Randy Smith (Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon about advanced environmental storytelling in game design. ...
The UK video games industry is set to expand in 2016, with a number of games businesses keen to increase investment and bring in new employees. ...
On creating games in the spirit of the riot grrrl movement: "Because we will never meet the hierarchical standards of talented or cool, they are created to keep us out and if we ever meet them they will change." ...
Tyler Glaiel (Closure, Bombernauts) shares a list of fixes he'd like to see Valve make for the Steam platform in 2016: topics include reviews, discoverability, developer relations, sales, and more. ...
There are plenty of things we see in games over and over again -- but we don't have words for most of them. Thanks to Vlambeer's Rami Ismail, we're on our way to building a new lexicon. ...
At GDC 2015's Indie Games Summit Flippfly founders Aaron and Forest San Filippo discuss the ups and downs of their stubborn efforts to create, fund and promote their debut game Race the Sun. ...
"I've learned that the best trailers make you want to play regardless of whether or not the game is fun. Not only do these trailers do this by captivating our longings and our fears, but all of them do this exceptionally well." ...
Over the weekend Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman announced that Garry's Mod, the physics engine playground that got its start as a Half-Life 2 mod, has now sold over 10 million copies. ...
"The original music design we came up with on Eon Altar was an adaptive music layer system. The music system would add or subtract the different layers of the music track depending on what state the party was in." ...