The team at Haven dev The Game Bakers set out to make a different sort of game about romance and use love, not as a goal or reward, but as a mechanic and system felt throughout every aspect of the game. ...

Dutch indie Abbey Games announced yesterday that it will end all contracts with its employees by December 31st in an effort to "scope down" and get its Early Access god game Godhood to 1.0 by 2020. ...

In this 2018 GDC talk, inkle's Jon Ingold outlines the strategies the team employed to design their sci-fi detective game Heaven's Vault. ...

Nina Freeman is a designer at Tacoma developer Fullbright, and is also known for making intensely personal games like Cibele. She joined us to talk about how she takes autobiographical topics and turning those into brilliantly evocative games. ...

Want to see some inspired game design? Organizers have collected 60+ Alt.Ctrl.GDC videos showcasing many of the zany creations pitched to GDC's alternative controller game showcase over the years. ...

The Game Kitchen's Enrique Colinet, level designer on Blasphemous, gives a behind the scenes look at the design and iteration of levels, from whiteboard to final product. ...

The makers of the self-help app Fabulous are looking into a video created a few months back that, as pointed out by publisher Devolver Digital earlier today, bore similarities to Nomada Studio's Gris. ...

This week's roundup includes impressions of Death Stranding through Luigi's Mansion 3 to Modern Warfare as well as neat pieces on food in games, Junji Ito's influence, & more. ...

Got a great idea for a game played with a unique controller? You've got just four weeks left to submit it to the 7th annual Alt.Ctrl.GDC showcase at GDC 2020, a premier place to show off your work! ...

Copenhagen-based Triband is the studio behind what is easily one of the funniest, most joyful games of the year in What the Golf? The team answered...most of our questions. ...