"We decided to go for it; we all felt like it was a great opportunity to see how potential backers felt about the game, and were anxious to get as much feedback as possible before going into Kickstarter." ...
"In the past 9 years or so of practicing design, I've messed it up in all of the following ways at some point or another. Here are 5 of the most troublesome yet common ways that we designers screw things up." ...
"Abstracting helps you recognize the forces at play and see the bigger picture. If you perceive a game and its elements only in concrete terms, you can miss out on what makes them work or what makes them engaging." ...
The challenges of storytelling: "By wrapping all of this up into a high-level web tool that anyone in our studio can use we ended up with a perfectly flexible system that allows us to rapidly create." ...
GDC officials are happy to announce a partnership with gamescom to help put on the first annual Women in Tech Day in Cologne, Germany on August 5th, immediately following GDC Europe. ...
On releasing and selling: Nubs' Adventure: "This covers post-release topics, such as monetization, sales figures and player reception, and noteworthy things I experienced post-release." ...
A wealth of stats and knowledge about a recent 'free weekend' promotion on Steam for Early Access space game Fractured Space: "our regular 1,000 daily active users became just shy of 60,000 at the peak." ...
"Flash's tenure on the web is drawing to a close. And while few will mourn its passing, I'm worried that it will also mean the loss of one of the best tools for cross-platform game development for indies." ...
"Games. Have. Historical. Value. If you don't think games have historical value, everything I say is gonna be a guy talking about stuff you don't care about," says archivist Jason Scott at GDC 2015. ...
Sound designer Steve Johnson breaks down his work on thatgamecompany's remarkable Journey, providing samples from the game to elucidate each of his points about what makes a game sound great. ...