Designing a procedural murder mystery
"Have you played one of those detective games and ended up longing for more cases to solve? I think this genre could benefit A LOT from having a 'quest' generator." ...
"Have you played one of those detective games and ended up longing for more cases to solve? I think this genre could benefit A LOT from having a 'quest' generator." ...
Seasoned exhibitor Alex Nichiporchik offers up tips for dealing with the crowds at the massive expo -- or anywhere else you might find yourself showing off your game. ...
Yoko Ono's brilliant performance art pieces were designed to be interactive and impermanent, ensuring that each audience member had their own unique experience of them. ...
"I wouldn't have had these intense realizations about what I was doing with my life, and how I wanted to design the games and flesh out the ideas bouncing around in my head, if I didn't make time to play a bit." ...
VR experts from Valve and Sony London will be speaking at GDC Europe in Germany next month about what they've learned in developing some of the leading Morpheus and SteamVR games and experiences. ...
"We decided to go for it; we all felt like it was a great opportunity to see how potential backers felt about the game, and were anxious to get as much feedback as possible before going into Kickstarter." ...
"In the past 9 years or so of practicing design, I've messed it up in all of the following ways at some point or another. Here are 5 of the most troublesome yet common ways that we designers screw things up." ...
"Abstracting helps you recognize the forces at play and see the bigger picture. If you perceive a game and its elements only in concrete terms, you can miss out on what makes them work or what makes them engaging." ...
The challenges of storytelling: "By wrapping all of this up into a high-level web tool that anyone in our studio can use we ended up with a perfectly flexible system that allows us to rapidly create." ...
GDC officials are happy to announce a partnership with gamescom to help put on the first annual Women in Tech Day in Cologne, Germany on August 5th, immediately following GDC Europe. ...