"Most 3D animators tend to swear by their preferred tools of the trade. But when it comes to animating for games, an extra player is added to the mix: the game engine." ...

Check out the second annual GDC Europe Innovative Games Showcase, a curated exhibition of innovative and experimental games, with 10 microtalks from indie devs about new ways to design games. ...

This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics ranging from some practical advice for optimizing games for HD to a map analysis of the 'big three' in MOBAs. ...

"Probability of success is not defined by how many other devs there are. It's defined by how good your game is and how well you market it. Most games fail." ...

"Obscurity is probably our biggest challenge as indies. When we spend all of our time for months or years working on something, we tend to forget that almost nobody knows about us and our game." ...

Former thatgamecompany president and co-founder Kellee Santiago has joined the Google Play Games team. ...

"Debugging is actually all about finding the bug. About understanding why the bug was there to begin with. About knowing that its existence was no accident." ...

Do YouTubers help you make better games? To find out, Gamasutra took to Twitter to ask our followers: Who do you watch? ...

"You are not just a developer; you become a business publishing unit - all the risk is with you. We thought it may be helpful to highlight ten things that we believe digital publishers can learn from the boxed sector." ...

There's a chance you might have missed the news that the GUI library Media Molecule used while developing Tearaway is now freely available to game developers on GitHub as ImGui. ...