"We were just making a procedurally-generated game," says Swords of Ditto dev Sam Robinson. "There was no consequence to failure and we felt that if we added that...players feel a lot more attached." ...

This week's highlights include an attempt to archive key Flash games, a deeper look at Valve's upcoming Artifact, and a super-deep oral history of Panzer Dragoon Saga, among others. ...

Lead designer Boian Spasov chats about how Haemimont Games' Surviving Mars breaks with the city-builder genre in key ways to make players feel scared and uncertain while colonizing a barren world. ...

With SteamSpy in limbo, game dev Jake Birkett offers a refresher course on his method for estimating a game's sales based on the number of user reviews it has on Steam. ...

A MAZE 2018's "Most Amazing Game" award went to historical narrative game Attentat 1942, which is currently banned from sale in Berlin and the rest of Germany due to its depiction of Nazi imagery. ...

Game director Nick Popovich's advice revolves around the notion that indie devs should think in 3s: 3 days or less on trying to solve a problem, for example, and 3 months or less on big milestones. ...

Last week game dev Steve Thornton took to Twitter to ask: fellow devs, have you ever slipped something into a game you're working on that's just for you? The replies are well worth a read. ...

At GDC 2018 indie dev Zach Gage (TypeShift, Really Bad Chess) gave a great talk about how important it is to think about how people will encounter your game -- right from day one of development. ...

Launching after 2 years in Early Access, indie dev Tomer Barkan analyzes the financial data of producing and selling his team's first game: Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. ...

At GDC 2018, Foam Sword's Rex Crowle shares exactly how he created the striking visual style at play in the studio's upcoming co-op action-adventure game Knights & Bikes. ...