Dear Esther studio The Chinese Room's new first-person experience is set in a quaint town where everyone's disappeared. The developer talks here about prototyping and delivering story-as-gameplay. ...
"A problem I frequently face when designing a new game is intense anxiety from not having answers to all its design problems at all times. It's a cycle of obnoxious mood swings." ...
One develoment approach for isometric, voxel-based world from an indie: "Algorithms and solutions I discovered during my final exams in school and improved in the last two years." ...
"The Vita version is resulting the most demanding version so far, but all this chaos offer a bright side too: this version benefits from optimizations made for the PS3 and PS4 platforms." ...
Spry Fox's Daniel Cook offers a wake-up call to independent developers who think they can live project-to-project and make it in the long run. Here's what it really takes to sustain your studio. ...
A laundry list of the challenges facing developers who operate in countries with weak game development ecosystems, written by a Turkish developer. ...
"Looking back on things, I could've learned a lot more about the games industry much quicker if I had just gotten a job at a studio or press website instead of creating my own jobs along the way." ...
"When evaluating a YouTube channel you look at subscriptions obviously. However, what you do next is you check all of the Social Media channels that the YouTuber you are interested in is active on." ...
We talk to Chris Hecker about the surprising choice to make a single-player mode for his player vs player game of deception and suspicion, Spyparty. ...
"We have now overcome floating point precision problems and moved on to other things ... we hope that this in some way may help any other teams looking to obliterate the invisible wall." ...