"I wanted the game to be playable on mobile, but making a game with so many enemies, large maps and full of effects was hardly compatible with current mobile devices, unless it was optimized from the start." ...

"Unity forces coupling straight from their first tutorial. That's absurd. In order to solve this, we've created a Messaging system that allows objects to broadcast messages when events happen." ...

Designer and lecturer Lewis Pulsipher runs down the distinctions: "pure games never have always-correct solutions to the whole game" while "you cannot lose to a puzzle, though you may give up." ...

Indie dev Rob Fearon: "'Why do we keep forgiving Double Fine?' is a question someone asked, in all seriousness, on a website today. The answer is, weirdly enough, we don't." ...

"We either write every single shader program twice or find a way to convert from one language to the other. This is easier said than done." Here's a solution. ...

Retro games were never as clear and clean as you'd think from playing today's modern indie games. This step-by-step how-to explains the whys and hows of making neo-retro look retro. ...

"The toughest thing about making Gunsport is ensuring that asymmetric gameplay is fair. That is to say, making sure matchups allow for any team to win across equivalent experience levels." ...

"Games aren't autopilot for happiness. That doesn't exist. They reveal life by giving it a basis for comparison. A fish doesn't know it's in water until you snatch it out." ...

"I'm writing about learnings in applying for public funding, what kind of money sources we have tapped into at Epic Owl and what surprises we have encountered." ...

"We thought we'd hopefully help other fellow developers make more informed choices and give everyone a bit more context when looking at their Greenlight stats." ...