" So you may not heard of a mobile game called LavaCat, but it was one of the first games I'd worked on. Despite all of its shortcomings, rushed testing, unfinished art, it remains success in one thing: illustrating failure." ...
"Because there is only one narrative voice, the player can trust that it represents the words of a story being written around their actions. We build on this start by adding more interactions." ...
Super Mario Maker was predictably enticing to the game development community. And since this site is developer-oriented, I thought I'd showcase some of my favorite Mario Maker levels created by devs. ...
If games are Linux-compatible but don't work well with SteamOS, it appears they won't have a compatibility icon any longer. ...
"Taking everything into consideration, I think that while our cost-saving measures added a bit of inconvenience to the trip, it was worth the extra effort to save the fairly significant portion of our budget." ...
"Cheating vs. exploits can be confusing," opens this classic design blog post. "The cheating that happened in Destiny raised a debate about whether or not the player base should be punished." ...
"A quest to save your child's life is a quest motivation I find deeply compelling. It is the desire of every parent I see in neonatal. Art is a portal to experiences we may not have in real life." ...
William Chyr explains why he went from creating massive balloon sculptures in art galleries to designing infinite virtual structures in his game Manifold Garden. ...
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." ...