"These are the ones that affected me and I've felt not many people write about. Even with a decade of commercial experience, I don't think I really knew as much as I should when I began on my own." ...

"We are not intending to compete with Steam. If anything, we want Steam to be even more successful -- they've done great things for PC gamers in terms of having a single store." ...

Game developers are all over Twitter, sharing everything from tips on making games, observations on the latest news, and snarky jokes. This week: The magical way games look, broken or not. ...

Cogmind developer Josh Ge explains how to use REXPaint, the freely distributed tool he developed to create his game's world. ...

Mode 7 Games joint managing director and IndieFund member Paul Kilduff-Taylor explains the challenges of making an indie game success in 2015, and why discourse around it needs to improve. ...

"A look back at some of the takeaways I felt might be beneficial to other indie studios or audio folks working in indie games." ...

"We wanted to make new friends, get some feedback on the game, and just have fun. And in that regard, the conference was a huge success. We did everything that we wanted to, and more." ...

"For a week, forbid yourself to do anything with games. No playing, no designing, no reading about them, no computer gaming, no talking about games, no BGG, no Gamasutra, nothing relating to games at all." ...

X-COM creator Julian Gollop explains the advantages of random number generation in his latest outing, Chaos Reborn. ...

2016 event planned to showcase works of independent developers at the Washington, D.C.-based museum, following in the footsteps of last year's event. ...