Wave after wave of Kickstarter announcements has exhausted the press, says Square Enix Collective lead Phil Elliott, so don't PR blast your next campaign -- focus on your fans and influencers instead. ...
"The 'brute force' approach would be to just make up some tuning values, and play the game a bunch of times and tweak. So we turned to the game designer's best friend: Microsoft Excel." ...
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Riley MacLeod on topics ranging from the storytelling of Bloodborne to the closure mechanics of Tarot. ...
"A lot of praises has been made about the graphics in our Ludum Dare game Star Driller Ultra. How did we make such beautiful graphics in a short amount of time? It's a lot easier than you think." ...
Data on player death in an indie game: "We have learned that PC gamers play far better than smartphone casual gamers. Not only that, casual gamers are terrible players!" ...
"Eight years ago, our program's portfolio didn't include a single educational-themed game or project. Today, about half of those projects are educational games." ...
As part of the GDC 2015 Independent Games Summit, a panel of indie developers with VR development experience try and shed some light on the idiosyncracies of making VR games. ...
"I'm currently working on a mod right now. I plan to release my mod for free once it's done. But as a creator, it's also nice to know that there may be an option to make some income off of future projects." ...
"The game wants you to connect with the players around the table. That's why we gather for board games, right? These connections don't define us, but they are the finite moments of life." ...
"So: we were most likely not anywhere close to the top 100 during a periodic batch. How, then, did we get Greenlit? We have a few possible theories." ...