The story of an indie dev pushing hard to find the right project on the right platform at the right time -- and ending up with a great-looking game and a lot of questions about its viability. ...
"The notion that design is intellectually relevant is uncontroversial. ... But outside the industry, I don't think that games are really understood as designed objects." ...
Panoramical developers Fernando Ramallo and David Kanaga take a deep dive into a simple question: How do you design and tune player input for a game that's also a music visualizer? ...
Apple II arcade-style game Dino Eggs tried to edge out the competition by having a huge number of levels -- and here, dev David H. Schroeder recalls what that took in the 1980s. ...
The Marmalade toolkit expands to encompass two new, distinct sets of tools to ease creation of both 2D and 3D games. ...
Funomena's Robin Hunicke takes the stage at GDC 2014 Indie Soapbox and encourages developers to make games about tricky emotions and feelings like longing, affection, intimacy and love. ...
"Visuals, aesthetics, and outside appeal are what sell products and lead to downloads of your indie game. Players will judge your book by its cover. So make the cover gorgeous." ...
Why is assembly language so appealing to puzzle game makers? Gamasutra speaks to World Of Goo dev Kyle Gabler about designing Tomorrow Corp.'s thinly-veiled programming puzzler Human Resource Machine. ...
"A high-level overview of the areas outside of 'make a great game!' Not all of these may apply to your individual title, but it's worth the exercise of considering each high-level area and its implications for your game." ...
"I got to have a lot of conversations, some short, some long, with Japanese developers who wandered by to play the game. Here are 5 takeaways, either on game design, or being a game designer, that I gleaned." ...