"Instead of putting off marketing to the last second in favor of developing your game, indies are better served by brainstorming a marketing plan up front and treating it as part of the development process." ...

"Greenlight is a bit of an opaque process. I started my quest through Greenlight six months ago and I've managed to get Captain Kaon bobbling around at 50%, but no farther." ...

"Team leaders can easily find themselves trying to stop a runaway train. Fortunately, there are ways for producers and game designers to mitigate or even prevent these dynamics from occurring." ...

"If your sole experience is a series of tough crunches, you might think, 'This is just how games are made,' and work yourself into a wreck." ...

Producers from Bigpoint, Sega, RedBedlam, and Cartoon Network share the most important things to bear in mind when trying to get a full-featured game done on time. ...

An overview of advanced features in Photoshop that make the popular image editing tool much more robust for game development. ...

"While our experimentation time is serving us well in identifying some issues early, it failed to find other problems that became more obvious once the levels were laid out." ...

Want to understand why Spelunky's procedurally generated levels are so compelling and playable? This video breaks down exactly how Derek Yu got the game so good. ...

"I've worked as a programmer for a couple of high profile companies ... So when I shifted career and started teaching at Staffordshire University I set to getting the games industry itself involved." ...

Attorney Stephen McArthur: "Unfortunately, putting a game title on Kickstarter and successfully funding the project does not count as using the game title in commerce and thus gives you zero rights to the name." ...