An ongoing diary of one producer's mental health: "What people need to realize is that a mental health patient...is in most cases someone trying so hard not to be noticed or perceived as ill." ...
'With traditional level design you can hide things, and use smoke and mirrors to make levels look good. But with procedural generation, you can't fake that.' ...
At GDC 2015 Mushroom 11 creator Itay Keren explores the theory and science of designing great camera systems for side-scrolling games, and how you can apply it to your own projects. ...
The National Videogame Museum expects to open its doors next month in Frisco, Texas, more than a year after the traveling video game history exhibition said it would settle down permanently. ...
Nina Freeman's Cibele autobiographical game about finding romance in an MMO is a rare glimpse of what a mature portrayal of sex could look like in games. ...
"12 hour work days. Severely underpaid. Constant late-night calls because timezones. Waking up in the middle of the night to check notifications for disasters during big promotions. Crunching weeks on-end with no weekends." ...
"I wanted to share with you the steps I used to construct or in-game environment. It's been 9 whole months since the projected started and during that time I discovered some fun tricks." ...
"Games are complicated. You take intricate systems of interlocking parts and then add the human factor. Seeing the game in action is going to be a better picture than all your theoretical models. It's the real thing." ...
The genre defining rhythm game turns 10 today. Here's a classic postmortem of the game that first ran in Game Developer magazine. ...
"Time and experience have resulted in ROM hacks that are more complex—and arguably better-designed—than their originals. I spoke with one such ROM auteur." ...