In a recent Polygon op-ed, game designer Katie Chironis argues that asking for less than you really need to make your game is a good way to ruin Kickstarter for everyone. ...

In a recent Polygon op-ed, game designer Katie Chironis argues that asking for less than you really need to make your game is a good way to ruin Kickstarter for everyone. ...

The call for submissions in Mandarin and English to present talks for 2015 Game Developers Conference China closes this Friday, May 22nd. ...

At GDC 2015, indie dev Greg Lobanov (Coin Crypt) spoke about his bike ride across America and how it inspired him to think differently about life -- and the video games he will spend his life making. ...

Designers John Romero and Tom Hall share their stories of developing id Software's seminal first-person shooter Doom in this classic video postmortem from GDC 2011. ...

Pixel art is a tool, it's a technique. Would an artist hang up his brush because people don't like oil paintings? ...

For Ludum Dare 32, we hosted our second Ludum Dare Real-World Meeting here at the Tech Valley Game Space (TVGS) in Troy, New York. How did it turn out? ...

This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Johnny Kilhefner on topics ranging from Konami's decision to pull P.T. to the challenges faced by game narrative. ...

Realism is attractive but can get banal very quickly. It is where art deviates from reality that we can be moved by it. ...

At GDC 2015 engineer Zach Aikman offered a breakdown of Galak-Z's dungeon generator, including its unorthodox math, and his thoughts on balancing hand-crafted and procedural content. ...