"One of the most interesting roguelikes to come around lately, a game that is obviously close to the lineage and yet brings new clever and amazing ideas to the table is a little thing called HyperRogue." ...
"Your game has to be instantly recognizable. It's very difficult to find a unique, intriguing style. So far, the best way I've found is to enhance the qualities unique to your game, through gameplay, but also through your art." ...
Kongregate is expanding its game publishing efforts this week via Launchpad X, a new arm of the Launchpad incubator program it opened last year that will fund development of more 'experimental' games. ...
Cast your votes for both the Game Developers Choice Audience Award and the Independent Games Festival Audience Award , from now until voting closes next Friday, February 19th at 11:59 PM PT. ...
"There is a ticking time bomb in Early Access, and no-one knows how big it is. The sooner Steam acknowledges that, and introduces methods to deal with it, the better the platform will be and the less effect it will have on consumers." ...
"All of Infinifactory's mechanics were invented from scratch to create an open-ended system that resulted in solutions reminiscent of actual factories." ...
"Prune is a tiny mobile game about the simple pleasures of growing and cultivating trees. It's a delicate dance to remove that which does not matter in favor of that which does." ...
Cloudberry Kingdom dev Jordan Fisher reveals how he created the algorithmic level design system for the procedurally-generated platformer (and how you can design your own) in this class '12 feature. ...
"Our initial pitch for the game was 'Kung Fu Panda crossed with Game of Thrones,'" says Ty Carey, League of Geeks cofounder and Armello art director. ...
Everybody's buzzing about Firewatch, but Gamasutra editor Alex Wawro thinks nobody's talking about one of the best bits of the game's design: the map. ...