This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics ranging from the critical reception of Super Mario Maker to the literary heritage of Failbetter's Sunless Sea. ...
Paul Kilduff-Taylor: "The New Games Critic will resist the primacy of any single element when constructing their response; they will work to achieve a harmonious balance." ...
"I'm quite happy and proud of everything that I managed to get done these past few months, however, it's become clear that in some ways, the product itself isn't the problem." ...
"You know how it goes: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue... it can be used as a helpful crutch in your creative process once you pick up on it." ...
"As easy as it has become to create and distribute your own unique game, it is even easier for someone to copy your game and profit off of your hard work," writes attorney Stephen McArthur. ...
Kitfox Games (Shattered Planet) director Tanya X. Short shares lessons learned and, more generally, the philosophy of tenacious "scrappiness" that has allowed her indie studio to survive and thrive. ...
Attorney Mona Ibrahim's analysis: "The truth is that fair use is very difficult to prove and almost always require a lawsuit to reach a final determination. This isn't a perfect system." ...
More than two years later, the company has made the assets and project files for that famous GDC 2013 UE4 tech demo freely available for anyone to download and tinker with. ...
Fantastic Contraption VR dev Kimberly Voll: "If we hold VR up to the presence stick are we doing a disservice or a favour to the caliber of content?" ...
Thatgamecompany's Journey is dominated by gentle slopes, but in this GDC 2013 talk its art director, Matt Nava, explains how the game's art direction coalesced through rocky starts and sharp turns. ...