Nina Freeman's Cibele autobiographical game about finding romance in an MMO is a rare glimpse of what a mature portrayal of sex could look like in games. ...
"12 hour work days. Severely underpaid. Constant late-night calls because timezones. Waking up in the middle of the night to check notifications for disasters during big promotions. Crunching weeks on-end with no weekends." ...
"I wanted to share with you the steps I used to construct or in-game environment. It's been 9 whole months since the projected started and during that time I discovered some fun tricks." ...
"Games are complicated. You take intricate systems of interlocking parts and then add the human factor. Seeing the game in action is going to be a better picture than all your theoretical models. It's the real thing." ...
The genre defining rhythm game turns 10 today. Here's a classic postmortem of the game that first ran in Game Developer magazine. ...
"Time and experience have resulted in ROM hacks that are more complex—and arguably better-designed—than their originals. I spoke with one such ROM auteur." ...
The Independent Games Festival -- the longest-running and largest showcase for independent developers -- festival has seen more than 750 entries for its 18th annual competition. ...
"Overall, it was a huge success. An exhausting, time-consuming success. It was a little pricey in the end but I believe it was worth it to put Station Stop on the map." ...
"If you take one thing away from this then remember to somehow prove your game before it consumes your life. I say this with all the sincerity that comes from learning a lesson the hard way." ...
"In an attempt to get more baking done with less management, I created a simple script that takes care of this for any number of scenes you throw at it." ...