This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Zoya Street on how games are finding new ways to portray health. ...

"It was great to get out of our office for two days and focus solely on game development. I think we made three exciting games, each very different." ...

"I've been constantly improving it by adding new features and fixing level generation bugs. Which is probably the biggest downside of a level generator. The bigger the generator is, the more things could go wrong." ...

"Behavior trees are a hierarchical node structure where each game tick the tree is evaluated from the top to the bottom. The nodes control decision-making." ...

How do you capture what social anxiety feels like? Make a game about difficulty of completing a simple task when every action feels like a misstep and all options seem to result in awful outcomes. ...

"If lots of others are playing a game's multiplayer -- great! By jumping in and playing too, you're likely to have a great time with it. If there aren't a lot of others playing..." ...

An open call to global game devleopers to submit games for a variety of prizes -- including a small cash prize and a two week stay in Korea. ...

A deep and involved look at the performance of ad-based games on Kongregate, and tips for developers to make ads more effective in their titles. ...

"Whether or not this game trailer will get people interested in the game, hopefully I've given some of you an insight of what to look out for if you've never made a trailer for a game before." ...

"Lighting a 2D scene using stencils is a bit counter intuitive and can get complex quickly, but the advantage is that you can apply different shadow information to different sprites." ...