How did Dan Fornace create a Smash Bros.-style fighter without Nintendo's deep roster of pre-existing mascots? By designing characters around movesets, rather than movesets around characters. ...
An informal Twitter survey by Adam Saltsman shows a variety of developers getting love -- and shows the scope of the indie movement, too. ...
Game designer & consultant Ethan Levy explores a phenomenon he calls the "indie shame spiral"-and how to escape it -- in this brief GDC 2015 talk. ...
GDC is now accepting applications for the GDC 2016 Conference Associate program from now until January 1st. Associates will receive a pass to the show in exchange for about 25 hours of work. Apply today! ...
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks on topics ranging from race and representation in games to what video games can still learn from their board game and tabletop cousins. ...
'I can't blame anyone for assuming that Dropsy is a stoner horror-comedy thing,' says Jay Tholen. But his sweet-natured take on point-and-click adventures demolishes insane clown cliches. ...
"We live in a world of grey areas, both from a legal and a business perspective. While a copyright owner often has a legal right to do something, it may not always be the best move to make, business-wise." ...
Adam Saltsman and Rami Ismail take a break from their latest games to ruminate on the surprising and positive similarities of developing a game that streams well and a game that plays well. ...
"This is everything people love and everything people hate about procedural generation, and it defines a trench that the field has been stuck in for a very, very long time. I think it's time to get out." ...
'SOMA wasn't initially meant to be a horror game. It simply came to be horrifying due to the subject matter it was exploring.' ...