"Design challenges related to the contextual input scheme on our first-person platformer... The following guidelines are related to a design principle known as the Principle of Least Astonishment." ...
Lucien Chen's interesting indie puzzler is all about finding the right vantage point so that hidden images become clear. ...
"What I am attempting to do is to preserve the conquests and challenge that are integral to shumpping... So, let's look at some of those rules and how to subvert them." ...
Most self-identified indie devs will agree that we can update the standard advice from "just make a good game" at least to "make a good game and market it well." You also need a good pitch. ...
"With our emphasis on modability I think some of our decisions in the actual implementation might be different from some other games." ...
Friendship is a major theme of this visual novel about three teens stuck in a religious summer camp. It explores the difficulties and pain surrounding this precious aspect of our lives. ...
The ever-popular Experimental Gameplay Workshop returns to GDC next year, and the event's organizers have issued a call for submissions of new "experimental" video game prototypes. ...
"How Shelter 2 emerged from the original, how the features grew, and a bit about how the development process looked in different stages." ...
"By creating a ton of prototypes, I feel I've created a solid game development methodology that should benefit anyone creating games by themselves or on a team." ...
At GDC Europe 2015 indie game maker Ivan Notaros shares what he learned in making Scanner, a unique puzzle game that replaces the player's natural vision with a photo-based "poor man's 3D scanner." ...