Developing a metroidvania over three years: A candid look back at the iterative design process for a 2D indie game. ...
Chris Bourassa & Tyler Sigman of Red Hook Studios: "We wanted to capture the human response to stress. Any person can break under pressure, and people break in different ways." ...
News out of the Code Conference comes via Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe, who drops a few more details on what you'll expect to pay and how the tech might evolve. ...
A coterie of Swedish developers have quit their posts at Ghost Games and EA DICE to found Cosmic Picnic, a new indie studio based out of Stockholm. ...
A British indie studio and its publisher are involved in a public imbroglio over the studio's game Standpoint, which was put on sale for a minimum price of $1 at a flash deal site without permission. ...
What about focusing on the emotions you want the player to feel? This blog post explores the issue, with hints from Jenova Chen (Journey.) ...
"Over the last weekend I took part in the VR Game Jam... This article is a quick summary of current challenges in VR based on how they manifested during the jam and the presentations leading up to the jam." ...
How the interactive narrative of IGF student showcase nominee apartment: a separated place came to be: From conception through to design and execution -- tales told many ways. ...
His game may be controversial, but this interview with Destructive Creations CEO Jaroslaw Zielinski offers a perspective on running a start-up PC studio under scrutiny. ...
Gamasutra chats with a few VR game designers to figure out what they've learned about not making people sick, and how other developers can apply those learnings to their own projects. ...