"If you're starting off, and this is your first game, it's probably worth making a demo as it is cheap advertising (at least on Steam) which will help with the creation of a small community. It also aids your reputation as a developer." ...

As the game industry prepares for GDC 2016 next month, organizers would like to quickly highlight one of the more exciting Independent Games Summit sessions: the perennially popular Indie Soapbox. ...

"Fabulous Beasts is a co-op game in which you build a tower of beast-shaped pieces on your tabletop. As you stack each one, it pops into a fabulous world on a connected tablet or smartphone." ...

Putting your unfinished work in the hands of a stranger can make you feel incredibly vulnerable. But running and digesting playtests is a skill that dramatically increases your usefulness as a designer. ...

Mohawk Games' Soren Johnson explains the defining trait of board games is not, in fact, their actual physical components, but the transparency necessitated by their physical design. ...

The human interaction in Firewatch draws the particulars of non-physical, virtual social interaction into sharp relief. It almost seems to use the chatrooms of old as a guiding metaphor. ...

"The way we build games changes over time, but keeping an iterative spirit means being open to change, incremental improvements, and tackling the right problems." ...

"There is one commonality I've heard from developers on Early Access who succeeded: They loved it and they're going to do it every chance they can get." ...

Interactive fiction and narrative game developers can score funding for their game projects -- from tiny to not-so-tiny -- courtesy of the UK dev studio. ...

"Yes, it's hard to find good playtesters. That's why I'm suggesting that we don't.That's right. I'm saying that you shouldn't try to find good playtesters. In fact, you should try to find the worst playtesters ever." ...