Vlambeer's Rami Ismail: "Game development communities tend to develop along very similar lines, and at some point I've started to mentally organize these community growth thresholds into a model." ...

GDC Europe officials are taking volunteer applications for the Conference Associate program from now until May 25th. Volunteers will receive a pass to the Cologne, Germany show in exchange for about 14 hours of work. ...

"In the end, this list is not a set of rules set in stone, they're just opportunities. I actually really like Linq, foreach, and other productivity extensions, and use them often." ...

Tale of Tales' Michaël Samyn writes about building a first-person experience that resonates with his own influences and players: storytelling, love, interior design, and revolution in the 1970s. ...

"Unfortunately, it's incredibly easy to put off testing. Do it in sprints of a week or two, gather intel, and you'll have a ton of improvements to your already beautiful baby." ...

The CEO of Moon Studios pours his heart out in a lengthy postmortem of what went right -- and wrong -- during the 4-year development of Super Metroid-inspired Ori & The Blind Forest. ...

Speaking to The New Yorker, 11 Bit Studios reflects on why This War Of Mine is so unlike all other modern war games, and what burden designers bear for drawing inspiration from real conflicts. ...

This dev spent a year developing the premium-priced Prison Life RPG 2 for iOS and Android. Was it time well spent? This post offers a dive into the sales numbers and what affected them. ...

In this 12-minute snippet of the final Game Design Challenge at GDC 2013, high-profile designer Will Wright steps up to the task of designing "the last game that humanity will ever play." ...

"Balancing any game can be a difficult, time-consuming task. I theorize that Battle High's balance could have been better had I approached it from the standpoint of well-designed frame data as early as possible." ...