Mount Your Friends dev Daniel Steger opens up about the weird challenges and surprises of taking the 2D game into 3D as Mount Your Friends 3D: A Hard Man Is Good To Climb. ...

Strange New Things, an indie studio formed by former Techland, IO Interactive, and CD Projekt Red devs last year, has been acquired and renamed Wroc& #322;aw. ...

A new feature on The Verge tries to get at the heart of what happened to Telltale Games by speaking to a number of current and former employees, and their comments point to a toxic company culture. ...

"Having two bosses...it's not streamlined," said Red Hook's Tyler Sigman at GDC today. "But we truly believe the game would not have been successful without that messy, imperfect structure." ...

"Taking about comedy is one of the least funny things," said West of Loathing game dev Zach Johnson as he opened his talk at GDC 2018 today about the art of writing good comedy games. ...

"I came to realize that composing the page was more interesting to me that sequential storytelling," shared Gorogoa dev Jason Roberts "I had to do something with it, even if it wasn't going to be a comic." ...

Fullbright's Steve Gaynor and Nina Freeman discuss the level design of Tacoma and how different facets of design depended on each other during development. ...

Laundry Bear Games' Gabby DaRienzo discusses how A Mortician's Tale innovates on death mechanics, and shares strategies on how game developers can best explore death in their own games. ...

Narrative director at Deck Nine and lead writer on Life is Strange: Before the Storm Zak Garriss discusses how to run a successful writer's room. ...

"Scope creep is a bad, dirty term, yet it's also been my fundamental development technique," joked Tom Francis, developer behind the games Heat Signature and Gunpoint. ...