Itch.io is leveling up its services, has announced a partnership with Finji to be the first and only platform to sell the anticipated Overland. Co-founder Amos Wenger shares the details of the site's plans. ...

Today at Google I/O, the company announced that its popular computing platform will soon support Google Play -- letting a huge world of games onto the PCs. ...

"I think because you do not understand Flash and Air, and especially the very passionate community of developers behind it, you are missing out on great potential." ...

A technical post on reducing lighting artifacts: "more samples are always better, but even at higher sample counts, dithering makes a huge improvement in quality." ...

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..." ...