"Often, the type of game you're creating is the deciding factor. Have discussions with the leads about your opinions, and always keep your target audience, and target paying audience in mind." ...
Attorney Zachary Strebeck: "Read the terms and conditions that apply to the particular license you're purchasing. The best way to stay out of legal trouble is to follow the directions." ...
TowerFall dev Matt Thorson talks about his approach to game design -- how to make a game intuitive yet communicate the depth of its design to players, so they learn it naturally. ...
'Splosion Man creator Twisted Pixel Games is aiming to bring on a senior (or at least mid-level) engineer to work on developing game dev tools and systems at its studio in Austin, Texas. ...
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." ...