When Inkle sought to port its native-app mobile hit to Unity, it brought on ex-Rocksteady console programmer Ben Nicholson. He writes here about the technical challenges of getting the game up and running in a new engine. ...
"There are many other people in the game industry whose efforts make this possible, and they receive little thanks for their work. I'd like to draw attention to some of these unsung heroes." ...
"In early 2004, a middle-aged man with the Fallout-derived moniker 'Vault Dweller' wrote a brief forum post that began, 'Long story short, I've decided to make a game...' By late 2015, he had posted some 30,000 more messages." ...
"In this article I am going to set up the system in Elias, along with a new feature called 'tonal stingers' which allows us to add leitmotifs to our music." ...
It's the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., and on Twitter, we asked devs to tell us what they're thankful for. We've compiled a list of responses -- feel free to add yours! ...
Harper has braved YouTube comments and forum posts for years, and using logic and empathy, this GDC 2014 talk helps you craft mental armor that can resist flames and save money on therapy bills. ...
"In this tutorial we will create a system of checkpoints that can be applied at any level of our game quickly and easily." ...
"In game development, we are the beautiful well-respected people who look good doing what we do, and inspire aspiring developers to invest in the same brands." ...
'The game bends over backwards to share authorship. There is no grid. It prescribes no sense of right or wrong. The game trusts me to make horrific and wonderful things.' ...
"I already asked my testers for feedback, why not turn that into a dialogue? Heck, why not extend it further to other areas? Marketing and business development folks have been doing market testing for decade, after all." ...