In this 2016 GDC talk, Pocket Gems' Cassie Phillipps offers a crash course on how to create meaningful story branches without making narratives that are convoluted, confusing or shallow. ...

One of these games will win the alt.ctrl.GDC Award -- which includes a $3,000 prize plus a special trophy -- at the IGF ceremony during GDC, with judging taking place on-site! ...

Luke Spierewka of Polish indie studio Afterburn shares insights into the sales of the multiplatform golf-puzzle game Golf Peaks, shedding light on what other devs might expect from similar mobile-first games. ...

Our ideal candidate would relish the technical challenges inherent in cross-platform engineering, rendering, multi-threading, systems architecture, and optimization. ...

In this 2016 panel, devs Stephanie Fisher, Sagan Yee, Gemma Thomson, Rebecca Cohen-Palacios and Zoe Quinn explore the impact women-in-games initiatives have had on their lives and communities. ...

The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley describes the digital event as a sort of trade show for the developers or players that wouldn't typically be able to attend those on-location festivals. ...

Game Developers Conference organizers have once again donated a number of complimentary passes for GDC 2020 that will be given away (via lottery) as part of a special low-income GDC pass program! ...

Takuya Hatakeyama, director on Kadokawa's Pixel Game Maker MV, goes in-depth on the creation of the recently-released 2D action game tool. ...

Nintendo is ensuring indies don†™t fall to the wayside as the Switch nears its third year out. ...

The owner of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" trademark has issued takedown notices to a number of indie games hosted on itch.io over their use of the phrase in game descriptions. ...