William Pugh, the game designer known for his work on The Stanley Parable and Accounting +, explains his approach to humor in games, and the importance of preserving the joy in ones' work. ...

Elsinore places players in a time-looping vision of Hamlet, having them guide Ophelia through a living, active world as their decisions shape its tragic conclusions. ...

Highlights include a raft of new games, from World Of Horror through Lair Of The Clockwork God to Hunt: Showdown and beyond, as well as voxels and Apple Arcade, and an investigative piece on GameStop. ...

In this 2018 GDC session, Bithell Games' Mike Bithell picks apart the design of Subsurface Circular's conversation trees and explains how their flow mirrors that of conventional level design. ...

A Short Hike asks players to lose themselves on a peaceful mountain hike, seeing what paths and relaxing places thet can find as they wander to the summit. ...

Here, the team describes the process they went through in designing the main mechanic of the game, which (as you may have guessed) is the digging. ...

From a sword in a stone to a game of competitive potion-brewing, each of these one-of-a-kind alt.ctrl.GDC 2020 games has a remarkable origin story -- read all about 'em in these Gamasutra interviews! ...

The Sword tasks players with guessing weights to correctly (and heroically) pull a sword from the stone, and Bruce and Box needs them to hide and keep themselves covered up with a box. ...

Developers behind Touryst, Fugl, and Skies of the Past talk about techniques, problems, and solutions related to making their stunningly beautiful voxel-based games. ...

This year's nominees include a handful of recent video game releases alongside nominations for novels, tabletop systems, and short stories. ...