"I recently had a fellow indie dev on Twitter asking how we made the Armoured Engines loading screen, so I wanted to share the process with all of you!" ...

'A theme I settled on early in the project: kill players in horrible, awful, icky ways, but to make those death sequences as memorable as possible.' ...

Three more unmissable Unity plug-ins, as selected by independent developer Sébastien Dubois -- each with its own function that he finds indispensable. ...

Lucas Pope is trying to capture the legibility and simplicity of great Mac games from the era of monochromatic '1-bit' Mac Plus games with Return of the Obra Dinn ...

Lots of reasons, including: "Making prototypes, you will find a lot of tools and tricks that you can use on later prototypes or full games because you already tried them and know what they are best suited for." ...

A post on using Unity and Mecanim to animate a character -- and getting it to look right -- within a 3D adventure game. ...

UK publisher Mastertronic has declared bankruptcy after an investment deal brokered earlier this year fell through. ...

When Inkle sought to port its native-app mobile hit to Unity, it brought on ex-Rocksteady console programmer Ben Nicholson. He writes here about the technical challenges of getting the game up and running in a new engine. ...

"There are many other people in the game industry whose efforts make this possible, and they receive little thanks for their work. I'd like to draw attention to some of these unsung heroes." ...

"In early 2004, a middle-aged man with the Fallout-derived moniker 'Vault Dweller' wrote a brief forum post that began, 'Long story short, I've decided to make a game...' By late 2015, he had posted some 30,000 more messages." ...