"Long story short: human psychology is complicated," game designer Jesse Schell told Scientific American, who nevertheless talked to a few experts to try and figure out why people love hard games. ...

"I set out making a system that would instead generate characters on my behalf from a set of models that had the same topology so that they could morph into each-other and consequently be mixed in any variation." ...

UBM's Simon Carless: "You've probably already had plenty of people social media-ing or emailing you with a whole BUNCH of things to see and do at the show. I wanted to take some time to highlight some of the things I'm excited to see at this year's GDC." ...

WIZ is a transformable, reconfigurable Bluetooth-connected controller that gives players the option to have tactile and gesture controls on platforms like the mobile and PC." ...

"I've learned a lot in one year and wanted to sum it up in this blog post and throw in a few tips along the way. Some tips may come as a bit of a surprise!" ...

From Phantom Compass to Rocket 5 Studios, these ten GDC Play developers have been chosen to compete in front of a panel of judges to make the best game pitch during the all-new GDC Pitch at GDC 2016! ...

"I'm hoping that at the very least gamers realize that turning to the gray market hurts people like us that are working hard to support the game industry and specifically the indie scene." ...

Here's just one of them: "Just because a design decision was once right, doesn't mean it is still so after a year of development -- after you've introduced a bunch of other ideas." ...

Eric Barone talks about the 4 years of 70-hour weeks that went into Stardew Valley. "You should be free to work yourself to the bone, but not to force someone else to do that for you," he says. ...

After conducting an informal poll of indie game makers last month, indie developer and Finji Games co-founder Adam Saltsman has published the results on his blog this week. ...