In the wake of an IGF Award win, read Night in the Woods co-creator Scott Benson's thoughts about why its feline heroine Mae feels real and relatable to an audience that has latched on to the game. ...

"Surprise: cheap games do not make a lot of money," wrote SteamSpy operator Sergey Galyonkin. "People are still mostly buying relatively expensive and quality titles." ...

It's the latest example of the game industry's long-running problem with cloning, and what's especially striking here is that Baba is You isn't even out yet. ...

At GDC 2018 A Mortician's Tale dev Gabby DaRienzo explores how games are innovating on death mechanics and shares some insight into how you can best explore death in your own work. ...

"If you are not confident in being able to explain why the hits hit and why the others do not, you shouldn't be confident about your game's chances either," explains Ryan Clark. ...

Monomi Park chief Nick Popovich speaks at length about the "secret sauce" that helped Slime Rancher's slimes capture so many players' hearts: the stories they helped the player tell. ...

The publishing venture aims to partner with indie developers to both bring their games to new platforms and help them expand into other forms of media. ...

Gamasutra contributor Katherine Cross digs into Order of the Oven Mitt, a new edible game from game designer Jenn Sandercock. ...

"I let myself look on the game from a distance. I''ll do my best to analyze those key design features that I think did the most benefit. These are the things that I will remember for my future projects." ...

"Despite featuring zombies and developing a game where the foreboding sense of danger never leaves you, we choose not to mimic the artistic direction of similar titles." - Gwenaël Massé, artist on Dead Cells. ...