Last night indie dev Sam Barlow's Her Story earned the Grand Jury Award at the annual IndieCade 2015 award show, which also recognized game makers like Brenda Laurel, Ben Esposito and Naomi Clark. ...
'We think video game developers certainly can learn a lot from tabletop,' say Chris Hardwick and Dan Cordell. They love the 'gray areas' in paper and pencil games that give a DM leeway to improvise. ...
"This was our first expo showing off our own game, and so this information leans towards the novice side of demoing games in public. We did quite a bit of research and prep beforehand." ...
"This is a letter to myself five months ago; the guy who sat at his desk at work, reading articles about game development and wishing he could be on the other side of it." ...
A decade of research into the amount of time developers really work, culled from surveys given to game developers and crunched by academics who know the subject intimately. ...
Jon Gilliard, head of licensing at Games Workshop, explains how the miniature wargaming company licenses its tabletop games, and what they look for in the videogame developers that they work with. ...
Wasteland 2 developer inXile is expanding this year, as studio chief Brian Fargo and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal announced this week that it will open a sister studio in New Orleans by December. ...
"It's very easy to look at a mechanic you like, look at it by itself, and think that it's worth it, but when you look at the project overall, you've got to figure out where to cut your complexity." ...
Game Developers Conference officials are excited to continue their partnership with leading childcare provider KiddieCorp to offer GDC 2016 attendees access to an on-site children's program. ...
"As I'm developing my first commercial game on my own, I don't promise to have all the answers -- but I've gathered some advice that might help you!" ...