Plenty of excellent games are on the slate for the engine's annual award show; statues will be handed out this month in Boston, at the Unite conference. ...

"Each of these statements is meant to be an aspiration -- a goal that feels a bit out of reach to the design team. They tend to emerge from a set of playtests and discussions of existing games." ...

"We hear two things from people who see our game for the first time: 1) They're surprised we're not using Unity. 2) They can't figure out how we created the game's look. These two things are directly related." ...

"We have been overwhelmed by the response INK has had. This only motivates us to keep supporting the game a little bit longer, and adding features we had to cut during development." ...

"I don't know my place in the game world. Things are changing so fast that it's hard to tell if I'm on a good path or doing nothing at all." ...

"So I've stopped working on my previous game and added it to the game design scrapheap which grows bigger by the year." ...

The developers of Fantastic Contraption explain what they learned about best practices for VR development when they ported their simple 2D puzzle game into a 3D experience for Vive. ...

Epic Games rolled out the latest version of its engine this week, and the full Unreal Engine 4.9 update spans everything from expanded VR headset and mobile platform features to experimental DirectX12 support. ...

"I did the music and sound effects for it over the course of roughly three years and I am super proud of what has been accomplished during that time." ...

"Here you have it -- all the best thoughts and observations I could scrape together from 2+ years of solo indie development. I hope some of you out there find this useful." ...