Funomena's Robin Hunicke takes the stage at GDC 2014 Indie Soapbox and encourages developers to make games about tricky emotions and feelings like longing, affection, intimacy and love. ...

"Visuals, aesthetics, and outside appeal are what sell products and lead to downloads of your indie game. Players will judge your book by its cover. So make the cover gorgeous." ...

Why is assembly language so appealing to puzzle game makers? Gamasutra speaks to World Of Goo dev Kyle Gabler about designing Tomorrow Corp.'s thinly-veiled programming puzzler Human Resource Machine. ...

"A high-level overview of the areas outside of 'make a great game!' Not all of these may apply to your individual title, but it's worth the exercise of considering each high-level area and its implications for your game." ...

"I got to have a lot of conversations, some short, some long, with Japanese developers who wandered by to play the game. Here are 5 takeaways, either on game design, or being a game designer, that I gleaned." ...

"Mushroom 11 is a game about destruction and growth," is how developer Itay Keren describes his game. "You are an amorphous organism, and the only way you move is by destroying your own cells." ...

"I can tell you first hand that just because I was able to quit when it was still relatively early I can now work on a project I am fully committed on without any doubts." ...

Subterfuge's debt to Neptune's Pride is clear, but design decisions related to interface, scope, communications, and chronology ensure that it's deeply engaging, but less demanding. ...

Scottish indie studio and publisher Blazing Griffin is expanding beyond games this week by forming two new divisions dedicated to film development and post-production work. ...

'If you want something with traditional controls or you hate arcade coin-chewers, it's probably not gonna be your thing,' says Paul 'Farmergnome' Hart. 'And I am okay with that.' ...