Peter Molyneux's studio 22Cans is making a show of hiring fresh talent and making some staffing changes to "reboot" the company, chief among them being naming recent hire Simon Phillips the new CEO. ...
"At a high level, these are the techniques I use in Excel to accomplish this common task in a way that keeps my economy organized and ensures that it is easy to maintain and update." ...
Four years in to creating a game that spiked in popularity beyond its developers wildest dreams: A postmortem of boom times, a changing business model, and a studio's transformation. ...
"Conquering a rival civilization -- and concealing your imperialist intentions in rhetoric -- is a difficult task. Likewise is developing a mechanically novel, thematically rich hybrid game." ...
Developing a metroidvania over three years: A candid look back at the iterative design process for a 2D indie game. ...
Chris Bourassa & Tyler Sigman of Red Hook Studios: "We wanted to capture the human response to stress. Any person can break under pressure, and people break in different ways." ...
News out of the Code Conference comes via Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe, who drops a few more details on what you'll expect to pay and how the tech might evolve. ...
A coterie of Swedish developers have quit their posts at Ghost Games and EA DICE to found Cosmic Picnic, a new indie studio based out of Stockholm. ...
A British indie studio and its publisher are involved in a public imbroglio over the studio's game Standpoint, which was put on sale for a minimum price of $1 at a flash deal site without permission. ...
What about focusing on the emotions you want the player to feel? This blog post explores the issue, with hints from Jenova Chen (Journey.) ...