This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from their senior curator Zoya Street on game narrative, interactivity, and learning from mistakes in game design. ...

Finnish developer Frozenbyte talks about the bold experiment they just completed--the more people played the demo of their new game Shadwen, the lower the final price of the game dropped. ...

Finnish developer Frozenbyte talks about the bold experiment they just completed--the more people played the demo of their new game Shadwen, the lower the final price of the game dropped. ...

What if there was nothing to 'defeat' in your game? What would the player's negotiation between choices look like? Stanley Parable devs Davey Wreden & William Pugh ponder the question in this GDC 2014 talk. ...

"Our headgear is a controller that enables players to change the color filter through which they look at the screen. Each filter transforms how the game world is perceived." ...

Learn how to make the most of your visit to PAX with these five tips from Epistory developer, Fishing Cactus. ...

Since many developers got their start making mods for other games, it's nice to see Dennaton supporting fellow indie devs in its community -- though they're not allowing the game to turn a profit. ...

100 devs from around the world (and one Eurogamer contributor) found out this month during the inaugural Splash Jam, a game jam organized aboard a wintry weekend cruise off the coast of Norway.  ...

"There are of course limits to how much you can reduce the amount of work need for the localization process, but savings of 10-30% can reasonably be expected." ...

Intropy Games wanted their casual matching title Astral Breakers to be competition-friendly. So they took an early build to fighting game tourneys, and got valuable feedback from eSports pros. ...